The Uprooted is a rare book, combining powerful feeling and long-time study to give us the shape and the feel of the immigrant experience rather than just the facts. It elucidates the hopes and the yearnings of the immigrants that propelled them out of their native environments to chance the hazards of the New World. It traces the profound imprint they made upon this world and how they, in turn, were changed by it.
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The #1 'Must Read' For Any Serious U.S. Genealogist,
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If you want to feel what your ancestors felt after they landed, this is the book for you.I have read many, many books of this type, and Handlin's is still the best. He looks at the Great Migration from the point of the impact on the immigrants and their children, rather than the impact on Canadian and United States cultures. This book goes into areas that the documentaries that we've all seen, do not. This should be the primer for anyone who is going to read about conditions in the countries that their ancestors came to the US and Canada from. Without this piece, what went before won't make as much sense. Dispells the theory that we were taught in the 60s and 70s, that the immigrants came because they wanted to, and this was to them, the land of rags to riches. Handlin points out that if their very lives had nott been at stake, the vast majority would never have made the move.
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Big Canvas, Small Brush,
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The book is OK, writing style more opinion/poetry than straight history, but full of information. The only flaw I would comment on is that the subtitle should have been "The epic story of European peasants who were forced off their land and ended up trapped and hopeless in the slums and factories of New York."
My own ancestors, what little I know of them, passed through New York and Chicago to settle as farmers in Illinois; and on the other side, came by boat to New Orleans then up the Mississippi, to open a small store. Both in the 1850s. "The Uprooted" gives scarcely a mention of people like those, and I don't think they were particulary remarkable or different.
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This one has been around for a long time,
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but that's because it's a lucid little book. It reaches a general audience, particularly useful for high school and undergraduate college students.
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THE IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT started in the peasant heart of Europe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Old World, New York, Old Country, Civil War, East Side, Boston's Immigrants, First World War, Great Britain, New Jersey, New Orleans, North End New!
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THE IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT started in the peasant heart of Europe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Old World, New York, Old Country, Civil War, East Side, Boston's Immigrants, First World War, Great Britain, New Jersey, New Orleans, North End New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- A Pictorial History of Immigration by Oscar Handlin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The World We Have Lost: Further Explored by Peter Laslett in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- World We Have Lost by Laslett in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Children of the Uprooted by Oscar Handlin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: A CLASSIC WORK IN IMMIGRATION HISTORY by William Thomas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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