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The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
Tara Zahra
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Description for The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
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Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the land of the free and yet more than a third returned home again. In a ground-breaking study, Tara Zahra explores the deeper story of this movement of people. As villages emptied, some blamed traffickers in human labour. Others saw opportunity: to seed colonies like the Polish community in Argentina or to reshape their populations by encouraging the emigration of minorities. These precedents would shape the Holocaust, ... Read more
Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the land of the free and yet more than a third returned home again. In a ground-breaking study, Tara Zahra explores the deeper story of this movement of people. As villages emptied, some blamed traffickers in human labour. Others saw opportunity: to seed colonies like the Polish community in Argentina or to reshape their populations by encouraging the emigration of minorities. These precedents would shape the Holocaust, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
309g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393353723
SKU
V9780393353723
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Ref
99-13
About Tara Zahra
Tara Zahra is a professor of modern European history at the University of Chicago and a recent winner of the MacArthur Fellowship. She is the author of two award-winning books, Kidnapped Souls and The Lost Children. Zahra lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Reviews for The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
... vivid and meticulously researched work... The Great Departure offers a deep, multifaceted understanding of mass migration.
Times Higher Education ...a perceptive history of migration and Eastern Europe...
The Economist ...timely, myth-busting chronicle...
Nature ... The Great Departure, an illuminating study of emigration from Eastern Europe to the US...
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Times Higher Education ...a perceptive history of migration and Eastern Europe...
The Economist ...timely, myth-busting chronicle...
Nature ... The Great Departure, an illuminating study of emigration from Eastern Europe to the US...
... Read more