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Author Zahra, Tara.

Title The great departure : mass migration from Eastern Europe and the making of the free world / Tara Zahra.

Publication Info. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  304.8704 ZAHRA    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  304.8 ZAHRA, TARA    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  304.8 ZAH    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  304.87 Z13    DUE 04-08-24
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  304.8 ZA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 392 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-369) and index.
Contents "Not a golden country" -- Travel agents on trial -- "The man farthest down" -- Happy and unhappy returns -- The first final solution -- Work will set you free -- The freedom train -- Free to stay or go.
Summary "A panoramic, eye-opening history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. 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 groundbreaking study, Tara Zahra brilliantly explores the deeper story of this unprecedented movement of people. As villages emptied, some blamed traffickers in human labor, targeting Jewish emigration agents. Others saw opportunity: to seed colonies of migrants like the Polish community in Argentina, or to gain economic advantage from an inflow of foreign currency, or to reshape their populations by encouraging the emigration of minorities. These precedents would shape the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and tragedies of ethnic cleansing, while also forming notions of social solidarity, human rights, and freedom--whether it be the freedom to move or the freedom to stay home"--Provided by publisher.
Subject Europe, Eastern -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
America -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
East Europeans -- Migrations -- History.
East Europeans -- America -- History.
Immigrants -- America -- History.
ISBN 9780393078015 (hardcover) : $28.95
0393078019 (hardcover)
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