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Available
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Publication
Vintage (1988), Paperback, 192 pages
Description
This book focuses on the beginnings of the peopling of America, from 1500 to the advent of the Industrial Revolution, taking into account such aspects as settlement, social patterns, and groups and races.
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LibraryThing member carterchristian1
With his remarkable rich background in American history
author shows migration patterns for almost 200 years from
Europe to what would become the United States. He
suggests the reader imagine a spacecraft photographing
the globe from this period,showing the movement of
peoples. Today, as we see a
the US border to the United States and the dispersion
of Lations and their language and culture we have a
template from which to view this earlier migration.
Since the author wrote the book to compact his
impressions of longer books, it is especially useful for
the individual with a shorter amount of reading time and
an opportunity to digest this 200 year history of migration in
fewer pages. And if, as in my case you can actually
trace forebears to this period it is especially interesting.
author shows migration patterns for almost 200 years from
Europe to what would become the United States. He
suggests the reader imagine a spacecraft photographing
the globe from this period,showing the movement of
peoples. Today, as we see a
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migration from south of the US border to the United States and the dispersion
of Lations and their language and culture we have a
template from which to view this earlier migration.
Since the author wrote the book to compact his
impressions of longer books, it is especially useful for
the individual with a shorter amount of reading time and
an opportunity to digest this 200 year history of migration in
fewer pages. And if, as in my case you can actually
trace forebears to this period it is especially interesting.
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1986
Physical description
192 p.; 7.8 inches
ISBN
0394757793 / 9780394757797