Recent Scholarship
Immigration and Migration
Alexander, J. Trent, “Defining the Diaspora: Appalachians in the Great Migration,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 37 (Autumn 2006), 219–47.
Bloemraad, Irene, “Citizenship Lessons from the Past: The Contours of Immigrant Naturalization in the Early 20th Century,” Social Science Quarterly, 87 (Dec. 2006), 927–53.
Carah, Warren B., “William Bowden Phillips: Early Pioneer of Mariposa County,” California Territorial Quarterly (no. 66, Summer 2006), 18–37.
Edwards, Gary T., “In and Out of the Chickasaw Cession: Understanding Migrational Pressure and Economic Transition on Tennessee’s Final Frontier, 1818–1860,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 65 (Summer 2006), 106–29. Heavily illustrated.
Feeney, Vincent Edward, “Pre-Famine Irish in Vermont, 1815—1844,” Vermont History, 74 (Summer–Fall 2006), 101–26.
Flaherty, Jeremy, “A Multivariate Look at Migration from Vermont,” Vermont History, 74 (Summer–Fall 2006), 127–55.
Gabaccia, Donna R., and Vicki L. Ruiz, “Migration and Destinations: Reflections on the Histories of U.S. Immigrant Women,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 26 (Fall 2006), 3–19.
Kaplan, James M., “For the Future: The Swedish Pavilion at the Panama Pacific International Exhibition of 1915,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 57 (April 2006), 98–125.
Lintelman, Joy K., “‘I Always Been Working Hard’: Peter Bergstrom, Worker and Entrepreneur in Moorhead, Minnesota, 1898–1940,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 57 (April 2006), 81–97.
Luconi, Stefano, “Italian-American Historiography and the Seach for a Usable Past,” in Transcultural Localisms. Responding to Ethnicity in a Globalized World, ed. Yiorgos Kalogeras, Eleftheria Arapoglou, and Linda Manney, 221–37. (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2006. 280 pp. €42,00, isbn 3825352269.)
Prell, Riv-Ellen, “America, Mordecai Kaplan, and the Postwar Jewish Youth Revolt,” Jewish Social Studies, 12 (Winter 2006), 158–171.
Sergio, Bugiardini, “Stretti tra gli irlandesi e la non partecipazione. Gli italo-americani di New York City e l’accesso in politica” (Between the Irish and non-participation. New York City Italian Americans and access to politics), Storia e problemi contemporanei (Rome), 42 (2006), 115–35. In Italian.
Stewart, James I., “Migration to the Agricultural Frontier and Wealth Accumulation, 1860–1870,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (Oct. 2006), 547–77.
Walter, John C., and James H. Rigali, “The Anglophone Caribbean Immigrant and Partisan Politics in New York City, 1900–1972,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 30 (Jan. 2006), 19–57.
Weil, François, “L’ État et l’ émigration de France” (The state and emigration in France), in Citoyenneté et émigration. La politique du départ (Citizenship and emigration. The policy of departure), ed. Nancy L. Green and François Weil, 123–40. (Paris: Editions de l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2006. €22,00, isbn 1-82-713221-1.) In French.
Keogan, Kevin James, “Policing the Boundaries between ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: Immigrants, Narrative Identity, and the Politics of Inclusion/Exclusion” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2006). Order No. DA3203385.
Kinbacher, Kurt E., “Immigration, the American West, and the Twentieth Century: German from Russia, Omaha Indian, and Vietnamese-Urban Villagers in Lincoln, Nebraska” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2006). Order No. DA3205391.
Kulvinder, Arora, “Assimilation and its Counter-Narratives: Twentieth-Century European and South Asian Immigrant Narratives to the United States” (University of California, San Diego, 2006). Order No. DA3200730.
Marin, Christine, “Always a Struggle: Mexican Americans in Miami, Arizona, 1909–1951” (Arizona State University, 2005). Order No. DA3194937.
Gabaccia, Donna R., and Vicki L. Ruiz, eds., American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xii, 563 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03064-2. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-07305-2.)
Green, Nancy L., and François Weil, eds., Citoyenneté et émigration. La politique du départ (Citizenship and emigration. The policy of departure). (Paris: Editions de l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2006. €22,00, isbn 1-82-713221-1.) In French.
Harris, Stephen L., Duffy’s War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan, and the Irish Fighting 69th in World War I. (Dulles: Potomac, 2006. xxvi, 435 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-57488-651-7.)
Krabbendam, Hans, Vrijheid in het verschiet: Nederlandse emigratie naar Amerika 1840–1940 (Freedom in prospect: Dutch emigration to America, 1840–1940). (Hilversum: Verloren, 2006. 352 pp. €29,00, isbn 90-6550-947-X.) In Dutch.
Marton, Kati, The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. 271 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-0-7432-6115-9.)
van Ravenswaay, Charles, The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri: A Survey of a Vanishing Culture. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. xxxvi, 539 pp. $79.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1700-4.) Originally published in 1977. Heavily illustrated.
Aryain, Ed, From Syria to Seminole: Memoir of a High Plains Merchant, ed. J’Nell L. Pate. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2006. xxxviii, 260 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-89672-586-7.)
Dillon, Richard H., ed., “Ho! For the Kern River: Andrew Smith Hallidie,” California Territorial Quarterly (no. 66, Summer 2006), 38–42.
Klepp, Susan E., Farley Grubb, and Anne Pfaelzer de Ortiz, eds., Souls for Sale: Two German Redemptioners Come to Revolutionary America; The Life Stories of John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl Büttner. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xvi, 272 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 0-271-02881-5. Paper, $25.00, isbn 0-271-02882-3.)
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