A panoramic history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the “land of the free” and yet more than a third returned home again. In a ground-breaking study, Tara Zahra explores the deeper story of this movement of people. As villages emptied, some blamed traffickers in human labour. Others saw opportunity: to seed colonies like the Polish community The Great Departure - Tara Zahra od authora Tara Zahra a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Tara Zahra |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
416 |
Rok vydání |
2017 |
Typ |
filmy |
Nakladatelství |
W. W. Norton & Company |