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This land is our land : A history of American immigration /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2016Description: 124 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9781419716607 (alk. paper)
  • 1419716603 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 304.80973 23
LOC classification:
  • E184.A1 O83 2016
Contents:
The beginnings: Germans, Irish, and Nativists -- The other Europe arrives: Italians, Jews, and Eastern Europeans -- The other shore: immigrants from Asia -- South of our border: Latin American immigrants -- Seeking safety and liberty: refugees -- This land is whose land?: from World War II into the twenty-first century -- Appendix: Coming to-and staying in-the United States -- Selected time line of immigration history.
Awards:
  • YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award: Finalist
Summary: "This book explores the way government policy and popular responses to immigrant groups evolved throughout U.S. history, particularly between 1800 and 1965. The book concludes with a summary of events up to contemporary times, as immigration again becomes a hot-button issue."--Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
JNF JNF Chamberlin Free Public Library Juvenile Nonfiction J 304.809 OSB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000548341

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-120) and index.

The beginnings: Germans, Irish, and Nativists -- The other Europe arrives: Italians, Jews, and Eastern Europeans -- The other shore: immigrants from Asia -- South of our border: Latin American immigrants -- Seeking safety and liberty: refugees -- This land is whose land?: from World War II into the twenty-first century -- Appendix: Coming to-and staying in-the United States -- Selected time line of immigration history.

"This book explores the way government policy and popular responses to immigrant groups evolved throughout U.S. history, particularly between 1800 and 1965. The book concludes with a summary of events up to contemporary times, as immigration again becomes a hot-button issue."--Provided by publisher.

Accelerated Reader 7.9.

Reading Counts! 10.2.

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award: Finalist

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