{"product_id":"americanization-in-the-states-christina-a-ziegler-mcpherson-9780813035505","title":"Americanization in the States: Immigrant Social Welfare Policy, Citizenship, and National Identity in the United States, 1908-1929","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Makes a formidable contribution to U.S. immigration history by addressing historical and contemporary debates about national identity and the place of immigrants within American society.\"--Brian Gratton, Arizona State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Deepens and clarifies our understanding of this understudied but very important social movement by comparing and contrasting those Americanization efforts aimed at protecting immigrants with those more coercive educational programs which we have previously thought to encompass the entire movement.\"--John F. McClymer, Assumption College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first decades of the twentieth century, a number of states had bureaus whose responsibility was to help immigrants assimilate into American society. Often described negatively as efforts to force foreigners into appropriate molds, Christina Ziegler-McPherson demonstrates that these programs--including adult education, environmental improvement, labor market regulations, and conflict resolutions--were typically implemented by groups sympathetic to immigrants and their cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmericanization in the States\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comparative history of social welfare policies developed in four distinct regions with diverse immigrant populations: New York, California, Massachusetts, and Illinois. By focusing on state actions versus national agencies and organizations, and by examining rural and western approaches in addition to urban and eastern ones, Ziegler-McPherson broadens the historical literature associated with Americanization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe also reveals how these programs, and the theories of citizenship and national identity used to justify their underlying policies, were really attempts by middle-class progressives to get new citizens to adopt Anglo-American, middle-class values and lifestyles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson is a public historian who lives in New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christina a. Ziegler-McPherson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813035503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813035505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d","brand":"Christina a. Ziegler-McPherson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46721272905983,"sku":"9780813035505","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fb9fb911-6f79-4497-a4c0-13beabdc8a36.jpg?v=1742752368","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/americanization-in-the-states-christina-a-ziegler-mcpherson-9780813035505","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}