Roger Daniels
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Language
English
Description
With a timely new chapter on immigration in the current age of globalization, a new Preface, and new appendixes with the most recent statistics, this revised edition is an engrossing study of immigration to the United States from the colonial era to the present. Annotation. With a timely new chapter on immigration in the current age of globalization, a new Preface, and new appendixes with the most recent statistics, this revised edition is an engrossing...
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As renowned historian Roger Daniels shows in this brilliant new work, America's inconsistent, often illogical, and always cumbersome immigration policy has profoundly affected our recent past.
The federal government's efforts to pick and choose among the multitude of immigrants seeking to enter the United States began with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Conceived in ignorance and falsely presented to the public, it had undreamt of consequences,...
7) Earthquakes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Explains what causes earthquakes, how they are measured and predicted, and the effects they can have on people and the environment.
8) Volcanoes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Explains how volcanoes are formed, how and why they erupt, how they can be predicted, and the effects they can have on people and the environment.
9) The Thames
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
An overview of England's famous river, describing its physical features, history, agriculture, industry, transportation, towns, pollution, and future.
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