Immigrants in the far West : historical identities and experiences / edited by Jessie L. Embry and Brian Q. Cannon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Embry, Jessie L., editor.

Cannon, Brian Q., editor.

Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, sponsoring body.

Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--West (U.S.)--History.

Immigrants.

History.

Cultural pluralism.

Acculturation.

West (U.S.)--Emigration and immigration--History.

West (U.S.).

Acculturation--West (U.S.)--History.

Cultural pluralism--West (U.S.)--History.

Physical Description:

ix, 485 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2015]

Summary:

"This book is a collection of essays showcasing cutting-edge research and innovative approaches that a new generation of scholars is bringing to the study of immigration in the American West. Often overlooked in general studies of immigration, the western United States has been and is an important destination for immigrants. The unique combination of ethnicities and races in the West, combined with political and economic peculiarities, has given the region an immigration narrative that departs significantly from that of the East and Midwest. This volume explores facets of this narrative with case studies that reveal how immigration in the American West has influenced the region's development culturally, economically, socially, and politically. Contributors offer historical narrative and theory to illuminate factors that have galvanized immigration and the ways that agency, cultural resources, institutions, and societal attitudes have shaped immigrant experiences. With chapters written by scholars from multiple fields, the book's interdisciplinary framework will make it of interest to readers from a variety of backgrounds"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Immigrants and Colonists : Three Accounts of Mexican California / Brett Garcia Myhren

Hell and Heaven on Wheels : Mormons, Immigrants, and the (Re)construction of American Progress and Masculinity on the Transcontinental Railroad / Ryan Dearinger

Japanese Immigrants and the Dillingham Commission : Federal Immigration Policy and the American West / Katherine Benton-Cohen

The Specter of Nations : Immigration, Gothicism, and Transnational Mimicry in Two Post-Revolutionary Mexican American Novels / D. Seth Horton

Converting the Civilizing Mission : American Catholics, Mexican Immigrants, and the Taming of the West in the Early Twentieth Century / Anne M. Martínez

"Something Fearful and Wonderful" : Immigrant Children, Americanization, and Public Education in Los Angeles, 1900-1929 / Eileen V. Wallis

Locally Made : Immigrant Whiteness in Montana's Copper Communities / Matthew Basso

Social Capital and Frontier Community Building : The Case of Immigrant Jews in Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles / Karen S. Wilson

Greening the Silver Saloon : Building Irish Community in the Mining West / Michelle A. Charest

"Saints in the Pit" : Mormon Colliers in Britain and the Intermountain West / Mindi Sitterud-McCluskey

The Frontier Thesis in Transnational Migration : The U.S. West in the Making of Italy Abroad / Mark I. Choate

Outlanders and Inlanders : Boer Colonization in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1902-1905 / Andrew Offenburger

The Spatial Distribution of Hispanics in the Mountain West, 1970-2010 / J. Matthew Shumway

Hispanic Mormon Immigrants in Provo, Utah / Jessie L. Embry and Meisha Slight.

Notes:

"A Project of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.

ISBN:

1607813807

9781607813804

OCLC:

890625252

Publisher Number:

99963186169