Ellis Island Nation : : Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century / / Robert L. Fleegler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
• VerfasserIn: Fleegler, Robert L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Haney Foundation Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 5 illus.

Though debates over immigration have waxed and waned in the course of American history, the importance of immigrants to the nation's identity is imparted in civics classes, political discourse, and television and film. We are told that the United States is a "nation of immigrants," bu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Beginning of the Era of Restriction
• Chapter 2. Contributionism in the Prewar Period
• Chapter 3. The Quest for Tolerance and Unity
• Chapter 4. How Much Did the War Change America?
• Chapter 5. The Reemergence of Contributionism
• Chapter 6. The Cold War and Religious Unity
• Chapter 7. The Triumph of Contributionism
• Epilogue: ''How great to be an American and something else as well''
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments