From all points : America's immigrant West, 1870s-1952 / Elliott Robert Barkan.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:American West in the twentieth century.
Main Author: Barkan, Elliott Robert
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2007], ©2007.
Series:American West in the twentieth century.
Subjects:
Minorities > West (U.S.) > History.
Immigrants > West (U.S.) > History.
Pioneers > West (U.S.) > History.
West (U.S.) > Emigration and immigration > History.
West (U.S.) > History.
West (U.S.) > Ethnic relations.
Cultural pluralism > West (U.S.) > History.
Acculturation > West (U.S.) > History.
Racism > West (U.S.) > History.
West (U.S.) > Social conditions.
Physical Description:xix, 598 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Immigrant stories from the West
  • The draw of the late-nineteenth-century West
  • Where in the West were they?
  • Targets of racism : Chinese and others on the mainland and Hawaiʻi
  • The Scandinavians and step migration
  • The German presence
  • Proximity of homeland : the Mexicans
  • In the year 1903
  • Foreshadowing twentieth-century patterns
  • Immigrant stories and the West in the 1900s
  • Who came?
  • The Dillingham commission and the West
  • The continuing evolution of immigration and naturalization issues and policies (Asians)
  • Miners, merchants, and entrepreneurs : Europeans compete with Europeans (Greeks and others)
  • Land, labor, and immigrant communities : Hawaiʻi and the mainland (Asians, Portuguese, Armenians, and Scandinavians)
  • Newcomers, old and new (Italians, Basques, French, and Mexicans)
  • The First World War and Americanization
  • State and federal laws and decisions, 1917-1920
  • The early 1920s : threshold of momentous changes
  • A world of peoples : the 1920s and 1930s
  • Demographic trends : a changing West and changing Westerners
  • Institutionalizing the quota system : 1924
  • Divided yet interlinked : the rural West
  • Filipinos : the newer immigrant wave bridging the rural and urban West
  • Divided yet interlinked : the urban West in the interwar years
  • Urban landscapes and ethnic encounters
  • From "reoccupation" to repatriation : Mexicans in the Southwest between the wars
  • Darker turns during the interwar years : workers and refugees
  • Aliens and race issues on the eve of the Second World War
  • Interwar or interlude? twilight and dawn in the West
  • Voices from America on the eve of war
  • War : against all those of Japanese descent
  • The Second World War's other enemy aliens : Italians and Germans
  • The homefront in wartime : preface to an era of change
  • Wartime and postwar agricultural issues : land, labor, growers, and unions
  • Immigrants and ethnics in the postwar years
  • The Cold War heats up : the politics of immigration, 1950-1952
  • Dora and the harbinger of coming events
  • Looking back on America's immigrant West.