Book reviews

• Published in: Immigrants & minorities 1998, Vol.17 (3), p.74-113
• Main Authors: Grant, SM, Durrans, Peter J, MacRaild, Donald M, Sponza, Lucio, Scully, Judy, Wynn, Neil A, Chung, SF, Ward, Brian, Burchell, RA, Cook, Robert, Renshaw, Patrick, Lee, A Robert, Rushton, Peter, Arora, R, Green, Jeffrey, Winslow, Michelle, Gilbert, Emily, Landsman, Neil, Alderman, Geoffrey, Turner, David, Jenkinson, Jacqueline, Panayi, Panikos
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Subjects: 20th century; Bravery; Civil rights; Concentration camps; Diaspora; Discourses; Dressing; Emigration; Famine; Fascism; Forced labor; Immigrants; Immigration; Jewish people; Lynchings; Migration; Muslims; Nationalism; Paradigms; Political culture; Politics; Popular culture; Postcolonialism; Racial violence
• ISSN: 0261-9288
• DOI: 10.1080/02619288.1998.9974953

Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996). Pp.xii + 257. NP. ISBN 0 8122 1548 6 Bart Moore-Gilbert, Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics (London: Verso, 1997). Pp.xii + 243. £40 (hardback); £15 (paperback). ISBN 1 85984 909 1 and 034 5 Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen (eds.), Migration, Migration History, History: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives (Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt, New York, Paris, Vienna: Peter Lang, 1997). Pp.454. £40. ISBN 3 906756 86 6 Pasquale Verdicchio, Bound by Distance: Rethinking Nationalism through the Italian Diaspora (Madison, WI and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, London: Associated University Presses, 1997). Pp.196. £25 (hardback). ISBN 0 8386 3683 7 Donald Harman Akenson, If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997). Pp.xi + 273. £29.95 (hardback); £14.94 (paperback). ISBN 085323 952 5 and 952 2 Roger Daniels, Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America 1890-1924 (Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, Inc. 1997). Pp.x + 160. $22.5. ISBN 1 56663 163 3 Mildred Allen Beik, The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1996). Pp.xix + 441. £53.95 (hardback); £20.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 271 01567 5 and 01566 7 Arthur Bonner, Alas! What Brought Thee Hither? The Chinese in New York, 1800-1950 (Madison, WI: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/London Associated University Presses, 1997). Pp.203. £40 (hardback). ISBN 0 8386 3704 3 Eric Foner, Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, revised edition 1996). Pp.xlv + 298. £19.95. ISBN 0 8071 2082 0 Mark R. Schneider, Boston Confronts Jim Crow 1890-1920 (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1997). Pp.xiii + 262. £40 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 1 55553 295 0 and 296 9 Robert Cook, Sweet Land of Liberty? The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century (London and New York: Longman, 1997). Pp.xii + 324. £42 (hardback); £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 582 21532 3 and 21531 5 George C. Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and 'Legal Lynchings' (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1996). Pp.xv + 305. $45 (hardback); $29.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 807