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• Publisher : VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS
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• Release Date : 03 June 2024

A thoughtful look at immigration, anti-immigration sentiments, and the motivations and experiences of the migrants themselves, this updated book offers a compact but wide-ranging look at one of America's persistent

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 03 June 2024

This title provides a narrative interpretation of key themes that emerge in the history of Asian migrations to North America, highlighting how Asian immigration has shaped the evolution of ideological

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 10 August 2010

When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 22 February 2007

This Very Short Introduction examines the phenomenon of international human migration - both legal and illegal. Taking a global look at politics, economics, and globalization, the author presents the human

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 03 June 2024

Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 03 June 2024

What does American history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraqi war, this Very Short Introduction chronicles the

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 01 April 2019

For better or worse--be it militarily, politically, economically, technologically, or culturally--Americans have had a profound role in shaping the wider world beyond them. The United States has been a savior

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 17 June 2013

What does diaspora mean? Until quite recently, the word had a specific and restricted meaning, referring principally to the dispersal and exile of the Jews. But since the 1960s, the

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 09 August 2012

This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 03 July 2015

Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off