Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitati…
"In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender examines an array of sources -- eugenics theories, scientific studies of climate, socialist theory, and even popular novels about cavemen -- to show how intellectuals and activists came to understand industrialization in racial and gendered t…
Introduction : The "Problem" of Migration / Robert Koulish and Maartje van der Woude -- Insecurity Syndrome : The Challenges of Trump's Carceral State / Tony Platt -- Migration, Populism, Racism : Between "Old" Italy and "New" Europe / Dario Melossi -- The Promise of the Border …
"A timely examination of the increasing efforts to criminalize the status of immigrants, exiles, and refugees"--
The Revival of "Colonization," to 1861 -- The Revival of "Emigration," to 1862 -- The Republican Party and Resettlement, to 1863 -- Resettlement in Latin America, to 1864 -- Resettlement in the European West Indies, to 1865 -- Alternatives to Foreign Resettlement, to 1868. "Fro…
Argentina lies at the heart of the American hemisphere's history of global migration booms of the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century: by 1910, one of every three Argentine residents was an immigrant--twice the demographic impact that the United States experienced in the b…