Attachments: Faces and Stories from America's Gates

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 mai 2012

A fascinating, thematic exploration of some of the millions of immigration files in the US National Archive, focusing on twenty nine case studies, this book explores beyond the literal by looking at the "attachments" of immigrants to family and community. Included are many previously unpublished photographs and other documents.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781907804076
ISBN-10: 1907804072
Pagini: 96
Ilustrații: 100 color illustrations
Dimensiuni: 183 x 259 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Giles
Colecția Giles

Recenzii

"A haunting reminder of the hopes and struggles of people seeking a promised land achingly in view"—Jim Cullen, George Mason University's History News Network

Notă biografică

Bruce I. Bustard is a senior curator with the National Archives in Washington, DC. A curator of several major National Archives exhibits including The Way We Worked (2005), Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives (1999), and A New Deal for the Arts (1997), he was the lead researcher for Discovering the Civil War the Archives’ exhibit commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War (2010). He is the son of an immigrant from Scotland.

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Tells the stories of 31 people who found themselves at the gateways to America from 1880 to 1945

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