Author: Kathleen N. ConzenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780783720593
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836-1860
Author: Kathleen N. ConzenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780783720593
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
"The German Athens"
Author: Kathleen Neils ConzenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
"The German Athens"
Author: Kathleen N. ConzenImmigrant Milwaukee, 1836-1860
Author: Kathleen Neils ConzenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Development and Experience of German Immigration in Milwaukee from 1835-1860
Author: Terri WangardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Immigrant Milwaukee
Author: Kathleen Neils ConzenNewsprint Metropolis
Author: Julia GuarneriPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022675832X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
"At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper business. Newspapers soon saturated the United States, especially its cities, which were often home to more than a dozen dailies apiece. Using New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Chicago as case studies, Julia Guarneri shows how city papers became active agents in creating metropolitan spaces and distinctive urban cultures. Newsprint Metropolis offers a vivid tour of these papers, from the front to the back pages. Paying attention to much-loved features, including comic strips, sports pages, advice columns, and Sunday magazines, she tells the linked histories of newspapers and of the cities they served. Guarneri shows how themed sections for women, businessmen, sports fans, and suburbanites illustrated entire ways of life built around consumer products. But while papers provided a guide to individual upward mobility, they also fostered a climate of civic concern and responsibility. Charity campaigns and metropolitan sections painted portraits of distinctive, cohesive urban communities. Real estate sections and classified ads boosted the profile of the suburbs, expanding metropolitan areas while maintaining cities' roles as economic and information hubs. All the while, editors were drawing in new reading audiences--women, immigrants, and working-class readers--helping to give rise to the diverse, contentious, and commercial public sphere of the twentieth century." -- Publisher's description
Ethnic America
Author: Thomas SowellPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786723157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups -- the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.
Political Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840-1861
Author: Michael J. McManusPublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873386012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This study of political abolitionism in Wisconsin between 1840 and 1861 demonstrates the importance of slavery-related issues in bringing on the political crises of the 1850s and the American Civil War. It shows Wisconsin as having been comparatively radical on slavery and race-related issues.
Immigration Reconsidered
Author: Virginia Yans-McLaughlinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019536368X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Providing an interdisciplinary and global perspective on immigration to the United States, this collection of essays brings together the work of leading scholars in the field--including the work of such distinguished historians, sociologists, and political scientists as Charles Tilly, Philip Curtin, Kirby Miller, Sucheng Chan, Alejandro Portes, Lawrence Fuchs, and Aristide Zolberg--and represents an important step forward in the development of immigration studies. The book helps redirect thinking on the subject by giving a summary of the current state of immigration studies and a coherent new perspective that emphasizes the international dimensions of the immigrant experience from the time of the slave trade to present-day movements of Asian and Latin American peoples. Immigration Reconsidered challenges ethnocentric American or European perspectives on immigration, disputes the classical assimilation model of a linear progression of immigrant cultures toward a dominant American national character, questions human capital theory as an explanation of ethnic group achievement, reveals conflicting ethnic and racial attitudes toward immigration restriction, and examines the revival of interest in oral history, immigrant autobiographies, and other subjective documents. Offering a new approach to immigration studies for the 1990s, Immigration Reconsidered is important reading for anyone who wants to know how the America came to be as it is today.