Yankeys now : immigrants in the antebellum United States, 1840-1860 /
"The first great wave of European migration to the United States before the Civil War transformed both the migrants themselves and the country they entered. The extent of this transformation has been difficult to gauge without information on migrants before and after their departure from Europe...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
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Table of Contents:
- Immigrant origins and the "saltwater curtain"
- The data: two new samples
- The context of antebellum immigration
- The geographic mobility of immigrants after their arrival at New York
- Occupational change at arrival
- Wealth accumulation, 1840-1860
- Economic mobility and geographic persistence, 1850-1860
- The impact of immigration on natives, 1850-1860.