Round-Trip to America

Mark Wyman is Professor of History at Illinois State University. He is the author of DPs, also from Cornell.

"Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States."(Journal of American History) A wide-ranging and carefully researched work.... In telling the story of 'temporary immigrants,' Wyman displays a historian's eye for the big picture and a journalist's ear for compelling anecdotes.(Journal of Economic History) This book fills an important lacuna and will prove a welcome text for immigration history courses.(American Historical Review) Wyman has written a fine book about the 4,000,000 or so European immigrants to the United States who arrived in this country between 1880 and 1930 and who chose to return to their native lands.... Even though much of the material is familiar, getting to look at it from another perspective is extraordinarily worthwhile.(Labor History)

• Part One: Migrants and Immigrants1. A Two-Way Migration2. Seasonal Migrations and the America FeverPart Two: American Realities3. Immigrants in an Industrializing Economy4. Leaving the Land of Bosses and Clocks5. Politics, Unions, and Postwar AmericanismPart Three: The Remigrant at Home6. Peasants Back on the Land7. Workers' Ideas Carried Back8. Churches, Traditions, and the RemigrantPart Four: A Round-Trip Journey Concluded9. The America Trunk Comes HomeMajor SourcesNotesIndex