| American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation, 2 Volume Set Contributor(s): Levinson, David (Editor), Ember, Melvin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0028972082 ISBN-13: 9780028972084 Publisher: MacMillan Reference Library OUR PRICE: $773.06 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1997 Annotation: These two-volumes are the key to opening the door to the immigrant experience in the United States. This set covers 161 nonindigenous cultural groups currently living in the United States. It discusses both European groups that have been components of American culture for centuries and those groups who arrived in the twentieth century and are therefore less assimilated and more culturally distinct. From the Acadians to the Zoroastrians, it discusses the unique cultural characteristics of each group including detailed immigration and settlement histories, language, economic patterns, housing, religion, marriage, family and kinship, relations with other ethnic groups, as well as discrimination experienced by the group. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Social Science | Reference - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 97017477 |
| Physical Information: 3.48" H x 9.49" W x 13.41" (7.46 lbs) 2 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These two-volumes are the key to opening the door to the immigrant experience in the United States. This set covers 161 nonindigenous cultural groups currently living in the United States. It discusses both European groups that have been components of American culture for centuries and those groups who arrived in the twentieth century and are therefore less assimilated and more culturally distinct. From the Acadians to the Zoroastrians, it discusses the unique cultural characteristics of each group including detailed immigration and settlement histories, language, economicpatterns, housing, religion, marriage, family and kinship, relations with other ethnic groups, as well as discrimination experienced by the group. |