TY - BOOK ID - 149849770 TI - Ethnic Americans : Immigration and American Society AU - Dinnerstein, Leonard. AU - Reimers, David. PY - 2008 SN - 0231512708 9780231512701 PB - New York : Columbia University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cultural pluralism -- United States. KW - United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. KW - United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History. KW - United States -- Emigration and immigration. KW - United States KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Emigration and immigration. KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149849770 AB - For more than three decades, Ethnic Americans has been hailed as a classic history of immigration to America. Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers begin with a brief overview of immigration during the colonial and early national eras (1492 to the 1820s), focusing primarily on the arrival of English Protestants, while at the same time stressing the diversity brought by Dutch, French, Spanish, and other small groups, including ""free people of color"" from the Caribbean. Next they follow large-scale European immigration from 1830 to the 1880s. Catholicism became a major force in America ER -