Ranaan Rein is Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
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Discover the surprising role of the postal service in our nation's political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time it represented the government …
"Ybor City, Florida, was once a thriving factory town populated by cigar-makers, mostly emigrants from Cuba and Spain. Growing up in Ybor City (now Tampa) in the early twentieth century, the young Evelio Grillo experienced the complexities of life in a horse-and-buggy society de…
"Ybor City, Florida, was once a thriving factory town populated by cigar-makers, mostly emigrants from Cuba and Spain Growing up in Ybor City (now Tampa) in the early twentieth century, the young Evelio Grillo experienced the complexities of life in a horse-and-buggy society de…
The author examines the plight of immigrant women workers and their jobs as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides, and homecare workers.
The author examines the plight of immigrant women workers and their jobs as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides, and homecare workers.
Offers a general understanding of immigration and immigrants, and helps to find out about particular cultures, topics and communities. This book brings together the disciplines of anthropology, social studies, political studies, international studies, and immigrant and immigrati…
To Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research, previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of the land now known as Israel. Abraham David here focuses on the Spanish and Portuguese Jews who fled the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th century…
"In The Promise of America, historian Odd S. Lovoll tells the story of the thousands of Norwegian immigrants who gambled on a fresh start in the United States. Now, Lovoll has carefully revised this successful book to reflect new understandings of the Norwegian-American past, up…
"Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the 'coolie' trade and ending during World War II. This book is the first transnational history of Chinese migration to the Americas. By focusing on the fluidity and …