Immigrants in the far West : historical identities and experiences / edited by Jessie L. Embry and Brian Q. Cannon.

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"This book is a collection of essays showcasing cutting-edge research and innovative approaches that a new generation of scholars is bringing to the study of immigration in the American West. Often overlooked in general studies of immigration, the western United States has been and is an important d...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies (sponsoring body.)
Other Authors: Embry, Jessie L. (Editor)
Cannon, Brian Q. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Immigrants > West (U.S.) > History.
Acculturation > West (U.S.) > History.
Cultural pluralism > West (U.S.) > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
West (U.S.) > Emigration and immigration > History.
Physical Description:ix, 485 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Immigrants and Colonists : Three Accounts of Mexican California / Brett Garcia Myhren
  • Hell and Heaven on Wheels : Mormons, Immigrants, and the (Re)construction of American Progress and Masculinity on the Transcontinental Railroad / Ryan Dearinger
  • Japanese Immigrants and the Dillingham Commission : Federal Immigration Policy and the American West / Katherine Benton-Cohen
  • The Specter of Nations : Immigration, Gothicism, and Transnational Mimicry in Two Post-Revolutionary Mexican American Novels / D. Seth Horton
  • Converting the Civilizing Mission : American Catholics, Mexican Immigrants, and the Taming of the West in the Early Twentieth Century / Anne M. Martínez
  • "Something Fearful and Wonderful" : Immigrant Children, Americanization, and Public Education in Los Angeles, 1900-1929 / Eileen V. Wallis
  • Locally Made : Immigrant Whiteness in Montana's Copper Communities / Matthew Basso
  • Social Capital and Frontier Community Building : The Case of Immigrant Jews in Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles / Karen S. Wilson
  • Greening the Silver Saloon : Building Irish Community in the Mining West / Michelle A. Charest
  • "Saints in the Pit" : Mormon Colliers in Britain and the Intermountain West / Mindi Sitterud-McCluskey
  • The Frontier Thesis in Transnational Migration : The U.S. West in the Making of Italy Abroad / Mark I. Choate
  • Outlanders and Inlanders : Boer Colonization in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1902-1905 / Andrew Offenburger
  • The Spatial Distribution of Hispanics in the Mountain West, 1970-2010 / J. Matthew Shumway
  • Hispanic Mormon Immigrants in Provo, Utah / Jessie L. Embry and Meisha Slight.