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02824nam a22002898i 4500 |
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zzv350 b1731905 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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DLC |
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20220308104931.0 |
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200202s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2019050475 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0393635848 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780393635843 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
LBSOR/DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
MiTN |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
JV6455 |
| Item number |
.Y364 2020 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Yang, Jia Lynn, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
One mighty and irresistible tide : |
| Remainder of title |
the epic struggle over American immigration, 1924-1965 / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Jia Lynn Yang. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE |
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| Projected publication date |
2005. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York, NY : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
W.W. Norton & Company, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2020] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
pages cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
"God's crucible" -- Slamming the door -- A "tragic bottleneck" -- "A land of great responsibilities" -- A son of Nevada -- Internal security -- An Irish Brahmin -- A bold proposal -- A martyr's cause. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"A sweeping history of the legislative battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for the immigration debates roiling America today. The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is today so pervasive, and seems so foundational, that it can be hard to believe Americans ever thought otherwise. But a 1924 law passed by Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing immigration from southern and eastern Europe and outright banning people from nearly all of Asia. In a compelling narrative with a fascinating cast of characters, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how a small number of lawmakers, activists, and presidents worked relentlessly for the next fortyyears to abolish the 1924 law and its quotas. Their efforts established the new mythology of the United States as "a nation of immigrants" that is so familiar to all of us now. Through a world war, a global refugee crisis, and a McCarthyist fever that swept the country, these Americans never stopped trying to restore the United States to a country that lived up to its vision as a home for "the huddled masses" from Emma Lazarus's famous poem. When the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, one of the mosttransformative laws in the country's history, ended the country's system of racial preferences among immigrants, it opened the door to Asian, Latin American, African, and Middle Eastern migration at levels never seen before-paving the way for America's modern immigration trends in ways those who debated it could hardly have imagined"-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Emigration and immigration law |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Immigrants |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Emigration and immigration |
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History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |