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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	JV6451 .F47 1999		AVAILABLE

Author	Ferrie, Joseph P.
Title	Yankeys now : immigrants in the antebellum United States, 1840-1860 / Joseph P. Ferrie.
OCLC	36800617
ISBN	0195109341
Publisher	New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description	xii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
LC Subject heading/s	Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218) and index.
Contents	Immigrant origins and the "saltwater curtain" -- The data: two new samples -- The context of antebellum immigration -- The geographic mobility of immigrants after their arrival at New York -- Occupational change at arrival -- Wealth accumulation, 1840-1860 -- Economic mobility and geographic persistence, 1850-1860 -- The impact of immigration on natives, 1850-1860.

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