European migrants : global and local perspectives

"In nine essays, American and foreign historians discuss the migration of Europeans, mostly to the Americas, 1840-1914. . . The essays attempt to place the migrations in the context both of local history and home conditions, and of a global perspective in which labor moves from dependent to dominant countries. . . The subjects differ widely, including European migration patterns; a comparative analysis of immigrant adjustment; female migration to the U.S.; the impact of rural change in nineteenth-century Germany; Jewish settlements in New York, London, and Paris; a comparison of Italians in Buenos Aires and New York; migration in social history; and labor migration of Poles." --Choice