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The ethnic dimension in American history / James S. Olson and Heather Olson Beal.
LIBRA E184.A1 O45 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olson, James Stuart, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minorities--United States--History.
- Minorities.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- Contents:
- Worlds collide : Indian people, Africans, and Europeans in colonial America
- The first Americans
- The European migration
- Ethnicity and manifest destiny
- African Americans in the early years
- Conclusion : ethnic America in 1890
- Ethnic America in transition, 1890-1945
- The new immigrants
- American Jews
- Asian Americans
- The nativist reaction
- Native Americans : the assault on tribalism
- Jim Crow and ghettos : African Americans
- The Mexican Americans
- Conclusion : ethnic America in 1945
- Change and continuity in ethnic America, 1945-present
- Black power : the African Americans
- The Hispanic mosaic
- Asian Americans in the modern world
- The newest arrivals
- Native Americans in the modern world
- White ethnics in modern America
- Conclusion : ethnic America in 2010.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781405182515
- 1405182512
- OCLC:
- 459210699
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