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American passage : the history of Ellis Island / Vincent J. Cannato.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating JV6484 .C366 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cannato, Vincent J., 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)--History.
- Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.).
- National Book Committee.
- Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--United States--History.
- Emigration and immigration.
- History.
- United States.
- Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)--History.
- Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.).
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- New York (N.Y.)--Emigration and immigration--History.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 487 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper, [2009]
- Contents:
- Part I Before the Deluge
- Chapter 1 Island 19
- Chapter 2 Castle Garden 30
- Part II The Sifting Begins
- Chapter 3 A Proper Sieve 57
- Chapter 4 Peril at the Portals 70
- Chapter 5 Brahmins 95
- Chapter 6 Feud 107
- Part III Reform and Regulation
- Chapter 7 Cleaning House 127
- Chapter 8 Fighting Back 149
- Chapter 9 The Roosevelt Straddle 165
- Chapter 10 Likely to Become a Public Charge 191
- Chapter 11 "Czar Williams" 216
- Chapter 12 Intelligence 238
- Chapter 13 Moral Turpitude 260
- Part IV Disillusion and Restriction
- Chapter 14 War 289
- Chapter 15 Revolution 311
- Chapter 16 Quotas 330
- Chapter 17 Prison 350
- Part V Memory
- Chapter 18 Decline 379
- Chapter 19 The New Plymouth Rock 391.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Weiner fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780060742737
- 0060742739
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