The Great Departure : : Mass Migration From Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
Book - 2016 304.87 Za 1 On Shelf No requests on this item
Sign in to request
Locations
Call Number: 304.87 Za
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
Location & Checkout Length | Call Number | Checkout Length | Item Status |
---|---|---|---|
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout |
304.87 Za | 4-week checkout | On Shelf |
"Not a golden country" -- Travel agents on trial -- "The man farthest down" -- Happy and unhappy returns -- The first final solution -- Work will set you free -- The freedom train -- Free to stay or go.
"A panoramic, eye-opening history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the 'land of the free,' and yet more than a third returned home again. In a groundbreaking study, Tara Zahra brilliantly explores the deeper story of this unprecedented movement of people. As villages emptied, some blamed traffickers in human labor, targeting Jewish emigration agents. Others saw opportunity: to seed colonies of migrants like the Polish community in Argentina, or to gain economic advantage from an inflow of foreign currency, or to reshape their populations by encouraging the emigration of minorities. These precedents would shape the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and tragedies of ethnic cleansing, while also forming notions of social solidarity, human rights, and freedom--whether it be the freedom to move or the freedom to stay home"--Provided by publisher.
REVIEWS & SUMMARIES
Library Journal ReviewPublishers Weekly Review
Summary / Annotation
Table of Contents
Author Notes
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
No community reviews. Write one below!
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Year Published: 2016
Description: 392 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393078015
0393078019
SUBJECTS
East Europeans -- History.
East Europeans -- America -- History.
Immigrants -- America -- History.
Europe, Eastern -- History.
America -- History.