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Democracy and Assimilation : The Blending of Immigrant Heritages in America

Author: Drachsler, Julius

Date: 1920

Language: en

Find in a Library: 557403

Find Online: OL7027369W

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An early immigrant history of the United States with a particular emphasis on the impact of World War I, and with a heavy reliance on United States marriage statistics. Drachsler evaluates the cultural and economic impacts of foreign immigration to…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Austria, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Genealogy, Government and Politics, Hungary, Italy, Jewish Americans, Language and Linguistics, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, United States

Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans

Author: Gerstle, Gary

Date: 1997-09

Publication: The Journal of American History

Volume: 84

Language: en

Find in a Library: 35782298

From the author: "In this essay, I test the CrÃ¨vecoeurian myth of Americanization against the rich body of work produced by historians and other students of European immigration in the twentieth century. The myth consists of four distinct claims:…