Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880–1930

Mark Wyman

Published by Cornell University Press 1993

Round-Trip to America

The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880–1930

Mark Wyman

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501732621

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About this book

Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States. Other scholars have dealt with particular national groups... but Wyman is the first to treat... every major group.... Wyman explains returning to Europe as not just the fulfillment of original intentions but also the result of 'anger at bosses and clocks, nostalgia for waiting families,' nativist resentment and heavy-handed Americanization programs, and a complex of other problems.... Wyman's 'nine broad conclusions' about the returnees deserve to be read by everyone concerned with international migration.

Author / Editor information

Mark Wyman is Professor of History at Illinois State University. He is the author of DPs, also from Cornell.

Reviews

Wyman has written a fine book about the 4,000,000 or so European immigrants to the United States who arrived in this country between 1880 and 1930 and who chose to return to their native lands.... Even though much of the material is familiar, getting to look at it from another perspective is extraordinarily worthwhile.

This book fills an important lacuna and will prove a welcome text for immigration history courses.

A wide-ranging and carefully researched work.... In telling the story of 'temporary immigrants,' Wyman displays a historian's eye for the big picture and a journalist's ear for compelling anecdotes.

"Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
PART ONE. Migrants and Immigrants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART TWO. American Realities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
PART THREE. The Remigrant at Home Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
PART FOUR. A Round-Trip Journey Concluded Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Major Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 9 b&w illustrations, 1 map, 1 chart/graph
Keywords: SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL SCIENCE; WEST EUROPEAN HISTORY; U.S. History

eBook

Published: July 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501732621