Emigration category: 2215 books
Nine Irish Lives
The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
**“These are not just nine Irish lives but nine extraordinary lives, their struggles universal, their causes never more important than today. As the saying goes, the best stories belong to those who can tell them. And these are well told, by some of our best storytellers.”
—Timothy Egan,...
Looking for Jimmy
A Search for Irish America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
“[An] exceptionally thoughtful and interesting inquiry into Irish America . . . More a meditation than a history” from the acclaimed author of Dry Bones (The Washington Post).
In the hands of historical novelist and speechwriter Peter Quinn, the Irish stereotype of “Paddy” gives way...
Adios, America
The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
A National Bestseller!
Ann Coulter is back, more fearless than ever. In Adios, America she touches the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that...
by Barry Moreno
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Since 1776, millions of immigrants have landed at America�s shores. To this day, their practical contributions are still felt in every field of endeavor, including agriculture, industry, and the service trades. But within the great immigrant waves there also came plucky and talented individualists,...
Boxing for Cuba
An Immigrant's Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In 1961, fearing the communist rule of Fidel Castro, Guillermo Vicente Vidal's family sent him to America through Operation Peter Pan. He arrived in Colorado and was sent to an orphanage with his brothers, and his family reunited four years later. Fifty years later, he served as Denver's mayor. This is his story of overcoming incredible odds.
by R.B. Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
For anyone interested in the history of the Scottish people, in Scotland and North America, this book is essential reading. In Canada and the United States today there are tens of thousands of descendants of Highland Scots who left Lochaber around 1800 to settle in Glengarry County. This book deals...
Cuba Confidential
Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping...
The Beast
Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon...
by Tara Zahra
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
"Zahra handles this immensely complicated and multidimensional history with remarkable clarity and feeling." —Robert Levgold, Foreign Affairs
Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history, emptying out...
Belonging
The Paradox of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Never has the world experienced greater movement of peoples from one country to another, from one continent to another. These seismic shifts in population have brought about huge challenges for all societies. In this year’s Massey Lectures, Canada’s twenty-sixth Governor General and bestselling...
Menace in Europe
Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Old Europe’s new crisis.
Europe, the charming continent of windmills and gondolas. But lately, Europe has become the continent of endless strikes and demonstrations, bombs on the trains and subways, radical Islamic cells in every city, and ghettos so hopeless and violent even the police...
Paisanos
The Irish and the Liberation of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
In the early nineteenth century, thousands of volunteers left Ireland behind to join the fight for South American independence. Lured by the promise of adventure, fortune, and the opportunity to take a stand against colonialism, they braved the treacherous Atlantic crossing to join the ranks of the...
by Lavinia Honeyman Porter
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Porter’s By Ox Team to California is a moving piece of social history which documents the struggles and hopes of ordinary Americans in the mid-nineteenth century.
When Germs Travel
Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Diseases that have plagued human beings since ancient times still exist, new maladies like SARS make their way into the headlines, we are faced with vaccine shortages, and the threat of germ warfare has reemerged as a worldwide threat.
In this...