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American Passage: The History of Ellis Island Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition
by Cannato, Vincent J
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Description
Details
- Title American Passage: The History of Ellis Island
- Author Cannato, Vincent J
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 512
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, N.Y.
- Date 2010-05-04
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ026UCY_ns
- ISBN 9780060742744 / 0060742747
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 6.6 x 0.89 in (20.27 x 16.76 x 2.26 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Dewey Decimal Code 325.73
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From the rear cover
For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil.
American Passage captures a time and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history, and articulates the dramatic and bittersweet accounts of the immigrants, officials, interpreters, and social reformers who all played an important role in Ellis Island's chronicle. In this sweeping, often heart-wrenching epic, Vincent J. Cannato reveals that the history of Ellis Island is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American.