{"product_id":"immigrant-voices-new-lives-in-america-1773-2000-hardback-9780252038396","title":"Immigrant Voices; New Lives in America, 1773-2000 (Hardback) 9780252038396","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImmigrant Voices\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew Lives in America, 1773-2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThomas Dublin (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252038396\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 March 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 6 black and white photographs, 3 line drawings, 3 maps\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm, 0.626 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Clearly aimed at the undergraduate student and the general reader, \u003ci\u003eImmigrant Voices\u003c\/i\u003e provides immigrant accounts of their experiences. . . . The selections, which vary in form from letters, to memoirs, to diary entries, to oral histories, illustrate both the push factors of native lands as well as the pull factors of the United States. A reader vicariously feels the emotional cost of leaving home, the trials of steerage passage, the draw of American jobs and freedom, the sting of nativism, the clash between vision and reality, in short, the immigrant experience.\"--\u003ci\u003eLabor Studies Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This volume will continue to provide students of American immigration with a rich repository of testimonies that reflect both of the commonalities among immigrant experiences, and the particularities produced by differences of race, class, gender, legal status, and historical context.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American Ethnic History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA classroom staple, \u003ci\u003eImmigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-2000\u003c\/i\u003e has been updated with writings that reflect trends in immigration to the United States through the turn of the twenty-first century. New chapters include a selection of letters from Irish immigrants fleeing the famine of the 1840s, writings from an immigrant who escaped the civil war in Liberia during the 1980s, and letters that crossed the U.S.-Mexico border during the late 1980s and early '90s. With each addition editor Thomas Dublin has kept to his original goals, which was to show the commonalities of the U.S. immigrant experience across lines of gender, nation of origin, race, and even time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520662171928,"sku":"9780252038396","price":75.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/immigrant-voices-new-lives-in-america-1773-2000-hardback-9780252038396","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}