From All Points

Elliott Robert Barkan is Professor Emeritus of History and Ethnic Studies at California State University. He is author of Our Multicultural Heritage: A Guide to America's Principal Ethnic Groups and And Still They Come: The Immigrant in American Society, 1920s–1990s. He lives in Corona, California.

"An engaging and complex work, From All Points makes a persuasive case for the centrality of immigrants to the growth of the West.Autumn 2008"—Frank Van Nuys, Western Historical Quarterly 39"This book is a cleary written, hefty synthesis of American immigration literature.Fall 2008"—Lissa Wadewitz, Journal of American Ethnic History"From All Points is a remarkable synthesis of the West as a region of immigrants. It tells the story of how vital immigrants were to economic growth and modernization. This will be the prime reference for 21st century scholars of immigration and ethnicity in the American West. Spring 2010"—Annals of Wyoming"Written in the fashion of Oscar Handlin, this study makes a convincing case that immigration history comprises an essential part of the history of the American West, and that appreciation of the former and the roles played by myriad alien arrivals is essential for understanding the latter. . . . Barkan (emer., California State Univ.) combines vignettes based on immigrant reminiscences with keen analysis to explore four related themes: various groups' arrivals, their economic influences, their effects on public policy, and their adaptation and assimilation. The resulting narrative is readable and informative. . . . Recommended."—Choice"Within this handsome volume, Barkan has set a benchmark for further research in the varied histories of immigrants from all pointsFall 2008"—Frederick C. Luebke, New Mexico Historical Review"From All Points deserves high praise for a number of good things, including meticulous research, expert synthesizing, keen conceptualization, and rich narrative. More important, Barkan's ambitious project does a great service to western historians who have longed for an overview of immigration. Spring 2009"—MONTANA: MAG OF WESTERN HIST". . . important demographic profiles, and on a meticulous reading of the vast secondary literature that is so masterfully synthesized here.Summer 2007"—Arnoldo De Leon, Register of Kentucky Historical Society"Elliott Robert Barkan comes ideally equipped for the task of this book . . . By including vignettes of individual life stories, he manages to capture both the forest and the trees of the immigrant experience, and puts a human face on many of the general tendencies and developments he describes.October, 2009"—H-Net Reviews"This richly detailed history of immigrants in the 20th-century American West rewards the reader with close attention to individual voices of immigrants. Encyclopedic in coverage, loaded with personal stories of real people, this book is unparalleled in its coverage. Finally the West becomes a full part of American immigration history."—Walter Nugent, author of Into the West: The Story of Its People

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and TransliterationIntroduction: Defining Themes—The West, Westerners, and WhitenessPrelude: Western Immigrant ExperiencesPart 1. Laying the Groundwork: Immigrants and Immigration Laws, Old and New, 1870s - 19031. Immigrant Stories from the West2. The Draw of the Late-Nineteenth-Century West3. Where in the West Were They?4. Targets of Racism: Chinese and Others on the Mainland and Hawaii5. The Scandinavians and Step Migration6. The German Presence7. Proximity of Homeland: The Mexicans8. In the Year 19039. Foreshadowing Twentieth-Century PatternsPart 2. Opening and Closing Doors, 1903 - 192310. Immigrant Stories and the West in the 1900s11. Who Came?12. The Dillingham Commission and the West13. The Continuing Evolution of Immigration and Naturalization Issues and Policies (Asians)14. Miners, Merchants, and Entrepreneurs: Europeans Compete with Europeans (Greeks and Others)15. Land, Labor, and Immigrant Communities: Hawaii and the Mainland (Asians, Portuguese, Armenians, and Scandinavians)16. Newcomers, Old and New (Italians, Basques, French, and Mexicans)17. The First World War and Americanization18. State and Federal Laws and Decisions, 1917 - 192019. The Early 1920s: Threshold of Momentous ChangesPart 3. "Give me a bug, please": Restriction and Repatriation, Accommodation and Americanization, 1923 - 194120. A World of Peoples: The 1920s and 1930s21. Demographic Trends: A Changing West and Changing Westerners22. Institutionalizing the Quota System: 192423. Divided Yet Interlinked: The Rural West24. Filipinos: The Newer Immigrant Wave Bridging the Rural and Urban West25. Divided Yet Interlinked: The Urban West in the Interwar Years26. Urban Landscapes and Ethnic Encounters27. From "Reoccupation" to Repatriation: Mexicans in the Southwest between the Wars28. Darker Turns during the Interwar Years: Workers and Refugees29. Aliens and Race Issues on the Eve of the Second World War 30. Interwar or Interlude? Twilight and Dawn in the WestPart 4. America's Dilemma: Races, Refugees, and Reforms in an Age of World War and Cold War, 1942 - 195231. Voices from America on the Eve of War32. War: Against All Those of Japanese Descent33. The Second World War's Other Enemy Aliens: Italians and Germans34. The Homefront in Wartime: Preface to an Era of Change35. Wartime and Postwar Agricultural Issues: Land, Labor, Growers, and Unions36. Immigrants and Ethnics in the Postwar Years37. The Cold War Heats Up: The Politics of Immigration, 1950 - 195238. Dora and the Harbinger of Coming Events39. Looking Back on America's Immigrant WestAppendixNotesSelect BibliographyIndex