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Title Distant magnets : expectations and realities in the immigrant experience, 1840-1930 / edited by Dirk Hoerder and Horst Rössler
Published New York : Holmes & Meier, 1993

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Description 312 pages ; 24 cm
Series Ellis Island series
Ellis Island series.
Contents Machine derived contents note: INTRODUCTION -- 1 From Dreams to Possibilities: The Secularization 1 -- of Hope and the Quest for Independence -- Dirk Hoerder -- PART I -- EXPECTATIONS IN EUROPE -- 2 Paris: City of Light and Shadow 34 -- Nancy L. Green, Laura Levine Frader, and -- Pierre Mikilza -- 3 Vienna around 1900: Images, Expectations, and 52 -- Experiences of Labor Migrants -- Michael John and Albert Lichtblau -- "PART II -- COMPARATIVE EXPECTATIONS: -- EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA -- 4 America and the Ruhr Basin in the Expectations 84 -- of Polish Peasant Migrants -- Anna Reczynska -- 5 Across the Ocean or over the Border: 105 -- Expectations and Experiences of Italians from -- Piedmont in New Jersey and Southern France -- Franco Ramella -- PART III -- IAGES OF AMERICA: MYTHS AND REAL -- 6 The am of Independence: The "America" of 128 -- glands North Staffordshire Potters -- Horst Rossler -- 7 Scadinavian Migrants' Images and the 160 -- Amricanization of the Work Process -- Caudius L H.Riegler -- 8 Hungarian Images of America: The Sirens' Song ! 180 -- of nkling Dollars -- Julianna Puskos -- 9I s of Am9rica arong Slovene and Other9 -- Yugoslav Migrants -- Matjaf Mlementit -- 10 Fm"Promised Land" to "Bitter Land": Italian222 -- rants and the Transformation of a Myth -- Ginfausto Rosolt -- 11 Myth to Reality: America in the Eyes of 21 -- SEuropean Peasant Migrant Laborers -- Ewa Morawska -- 1 's Paradox: Emigration to America in Irish -- Iaination and Rhetoric -- Kerby A Miller
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Immigrants -- Europe -- Attitudes.
Immigrants -- Europe -- History.
Immigrants -- United States -- Attitudes.
Immigrants -- United States -- History.
SUBJECT Europe -- Emigration and immigration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114977 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100020
Author Hoerder, Dirk.
Rössler, Horst.
LC no. 91033415
ISBN 0841913021 (acid-free paper)