The uprooted / Oscar Handlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Handlin, Oscar, 1915-2011.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--United States--History.

Immigrants.

Acculturation.

History.

United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History.

Emigration and immigration.

Acculturation--United States--History.

Physical Description:

x, 333 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, [1990]

Summary:

The Uprooted is a rare book, combining powerful feeling and long-time study to give us the shape and the feel of the immigrant experience rather than just the facts. It elucidates the hopes and the yearnings of the immigrants that propelled them out of their native environments to chance the hazards of the New World. It traces the profound imprint they made upon this world and how they, in turn, were changed by it.

When first published, The Uprooted won the Pulitzer Prize for history. This second edition is enlarged by a supplemental chapter, in which the author examines the meaning of the immigrant experience in light of more recent decades, and by a brilliant bibliographic essay.

Contents:

1 Peasant Origins 7

2 The Crossing 34

3 Daily Bread 58

4 New Worlds, New Visions 85

5 Religion as a Way of Life 105

6 The Ghettos 129

7 In Fellow Feeling 152

8 Democracy and Power 180

9 Generations 203

10 The Shock of Alienation 231

11 Restriction 255

12 Promises 268

13 After Two Decades 274

14 Encounters with Evidence 300.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-330).

ISBN:

0316343137 :

OCLC:

20263273