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Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources
Contributor(s): Lerner, K. Lee (Editor), Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth (Editor), Lerner, Adrienne Wilmoth (Editor)
ISBN: 1414403291     ISBN-13: 9781414403298
Publisher: Gale Cengage
OUR PRICE:   $251.99  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: November 2006
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Annotation: These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic:
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Environmental Issues
  • Family in Society
  • Gender Issues and Sexuality
  • Government, Politics, and Protest
  • Human and Civil Rights
  • Immigration and Multiculturalism
  • Medicine, Bioethics, and Health
  • Social Policy
  • Terrorism

Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general overview of the chapter's subtopic. The following standard subheads are included in each entry:

  • Date
  • Source
  • About the Author
  • Introduction
  • Primary Source
  • Significance
  • Further Resources

All titles contain an introduction to its topic, a chronology of major events associated with the topic, and a general index. A comprehensive subject index is included with print set purchases only.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
- Social Science | Sociology - General
Dewey: 304.809
LCCN: 2006026241
Series: Social Issues Primary Sources: Immigration & Multiculturalism
Physical Information: 1.6" H x 8.8" W x 11" (3.95 lbs) 536 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

Immigration and Multiculturalism offers insight into two centuries of global changes in populations and cultures. Included are approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general overview of the chapters subtopic. The following standard subheads are included in each entry:

  • Date
  • Source
  • About the Author
  • Introduction
  • Primary Source
  • Significance
  • Further Resources

All titles contain an introduction to its topic, a chronology of major events associated with the topic, and a general index.

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