| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
1007169
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b761539
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
McDonald, Jason, (Jason J.)
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
American ethnic history : : themes and perspectives /\ Jason McDonald.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
Edinburgh :: Edinburgh University Press,, ©2007.
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
1 online resource (xi, 260 pages)
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
0748628630
|
|
|
:
|
: 1280866500
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780748628636
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781280866500
|
|
|
:
|
0748616330
|
|
|
:
|
0748616349
|
|
|
:
|
9780748616336
|
|
|
:
|
9780748616343
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-252) and indexes.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
The origins and nature of ethnic identity -- The making of American ethnic diversity -- Ethnic adaptation -- Ethnicity and the American creed -- Ethnic incorporation -- Ethnic collective action -- Confronting challenges to ethnic allegiance.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
This book offers a thematic introduction to American ethnic history which provides an overview of key historiographical debates. It provides a new framework for examining and comprehending the varied historical experiences of ethnic groups in the United States. Thematically organized and comparative in outlook, it explores how historians have grappled with questions that bear upon a key aspect of the American experience: ethnicity. How did the United States come to have such an ethnically diverse population? What contribution, if any, has this ethnic diversity made to the shaping of American culture and institutions? How easily and at what levels have ethnic and racial minorities been incorporated, if at all, into the social and economic structures of the United States? Has incorporation been a uniform process or has it varied from group to group? This is both an authoritative introduction to the field of American ethnic history and a valuable reference tool for secondary scholoars.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Ethnic groups-- United States-- History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Ethnicity-- United States-- History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Ethnic groups.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Ethnic relations.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Ethnicity.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Ethnische Gruppe
|
| Subject
|
:
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination Race Relations.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
United States, Ethnic relations, History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
United States.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
USA.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
305.800973
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
E184.A1M348 2007eb
|