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1	Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement more books like this by David Hackett Fischer, James C Kelly add to wishlist A study of the American westward movement. It demonstrates that the movement was a broad cultural process best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites but also through the physical artefacts and folkways of ordinary people. see all copies from $15.30! new only from $26.99! \| SVS
2	Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time more books like this by Patricia Justine Tumang (Editor), Jenesha De Rivera (Editor), Edwidge Danticat (Foreword by) add to wishlist In Homelands, writers investigate the complexities of how women experience, remember, and imagine journeys to their homelands. Approaching the topic from varying perspectives exile, longing, belonging, diaspora, idealization they show that "homeland" isn't just a physical place. It can also be an imagined community, a part of one's identity, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99!
3	Restless Nation: Starting Over in America more books like this by James M Jasper add to wishlist In this work, the author discovers that the American character is full of paradoxes. He states that this elusive national character can be found in Americans' faith in moving. He portrays this character through the lives of America's famous and not-so-famous nomads, and facts and statistics. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $10.48! \| first editions
4	El Cid and the Reconquista 1050-1492 more books like this by Dr. David Nicolle, Angus McBride (Illustrator) add to wishlist The very name El Cid sums up much of the special character of medieval Spanish warfare. It comes from the Arabic al sayyid, master or chieftain, and seems to have been given to Rodrigo de Vivar by his Muslim foes. But was it given in recognition of El Cid's victories against Islam in the 'Reconquista' - or because this Castilian nobleman was as ... see all copies from $7.82! new only from $7.82! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Yankee exodus, an account of migration from New England. more books like this by Stewart Hall Holbrook add to wishlist see all copies from $2.94! signed copies \| first editions
6	A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier more books like this by Professor Joan E Cashin add to wishlist In this text, Joan Cashin explores the profoundly different ways that planter men and women experienced migration from the Southern seaboard to the antebellum Southern frontier. Migration was a family venture in the sense that both men and women took part. But they went to the frontier with competing agendas: many men tried to escape the intricate ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $22.44! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America more books like this by James N Gregory add to wishlist Talks about the southern exodus and its impact on American life. Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of black and white migrants, James N. Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora ... see all copies from $7.40! new only from $20.20! \| SVS
8	In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience more books like this by Schomburg Ctr for Resrch in Black Cultur, Howard Dodson, Sylviane A Diouf add to wishlist The follow-up to the critically acclaimed Jubliee traces the footsteps of four major African-American migrations and examines how those migrations helped shape, define, and transform the African-American experience and America itself, and how they will continue to affect the future. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.96! \| first editions \| SVS
9	American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement more books like this by Virgil Suarez (Editor), Ryan G Van Cleave (Editor) add to wishlist Diaspora constitutes a powerful descriptor for the modern condition of the contemporary poet, the spokesperson for the psyche of America. The poems in American Diaspora; Poetry of Displacement focus on the struggles and pleasures of creating a home-physical and mental-out of displacement, exile, migration, and alienation. To fully explore the ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $27.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	A Short Walk more books like this by Alice Childress add to wishlist Famed dramatist and author Alice Childress portrays her protagonist's "short walk" through life. During the early half of the twentieth century, Cora James experiences political movements, the easy life of dealing poker in a Harlem card parlor, and the more grueling demands of the vaudeville circuit. She emerges as the woman of stature she always ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	A Seventh Man more books like this by John Berger add to wishlist A SEVENTH MAN, John Berger's powerful chronicle of the lives of migrant workers, was made possible when he won the Booker Prize in 1972 for his novel G. He donated half of his cash award to the Black Panther Party and used the rest to finance this book. Along with photographer Jean Mohr, Berger talked to migrant workers all over Europe, trying to ... see all copies from $12.00! first editions
12	Anyplace but here more books like this by Arna Wendell Bontemps, Jack Conroy add to wishlist Originally published in 1945 as "They seek a city", this book was revised and expanded in 1966 to include chapters on Marcus Garvey, the Black Muslims, Malcolm X, and the racial disturbances in Detriot, Chicago and Watts. It is detailed with stories of African-Americans searching for a home. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $2.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles more books like this by Chad Berry add to wishlist One of the largest internal migrations in U.S. history, the great white migration left its mark on virtually every family in every southern upland and flatland town. In this extraordinary record of ordinary lives, dozens of white southern migrants describe their experiences in the northern 'wilderness' and their irradicable attachments to family ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $82.50!
14	Nation of Strangers more books like this by Vance Packard add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	California and the Dust Bowl Migration more books like this by Walter J Stein add to wishlist see all copies from $3.23! new only from $138.02!
16 view cover	Migration and Residential Mobility: Macro and Micro Approaches more books like this by Martin T Cadwallader add to wishlist This text studies the movement of people between regions and within cities in such developed countries as the United States, Canada, England and Sweden. The author presents the major theoretical and empirical issues of the field, while describing and explaining various kinds of statistical models for migration. In particular, he uses structural ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| SVS
17 view cover	Who Set You Flowin'?: The African-American Migration Narrative more books like this by Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin add to wishlist Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centres in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American cultural production. Griffin takes ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	Writing Across Worlds more books like this by King Russell, John Connell (Editor), Paul White (Editor) add to wishlist International migration has long been a dominant feature of world literature from both post-industrial and developing countries. The increasing demands of the global economic system and continued political instability in many of the world's region have highlighted this shifting map of the world's peoples. Yet, political concern for the larger ... see all copies from $3.98! new only from $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Moving North: African Americans and the Great Migration 1915-1930 more books like this by Monica Halpern add to wishlist After the Civil War, the South went through a period of rebuilding, termed Recon-struction, but because many white people in the South were not ready to accept African Americans as equals, unfair laws were passed which restricted the rights of blacks. These Black Codes and Jim Crow laws left African Americans adrift in a segregated world. Life ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
20 view cover	Migration in Modern World History 1500-2000 CD-ROM with User Guide (Student Version) more books like this by Patrick Manning add to wishlist This is an interactive multimedia curriculum on CD-ROM, which goes beyond the chronicling of migratory paths. It provides a springboard to explore a wide range of global issues in social, cultural, economic and political history during the period of 1500 to 2000. The CD-ROM allows the student to challenge, assemble and critique interpretations of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.60! \| first editions
21 view cover	On the Move: Women and Rural-To-Urban Migration in Contemporary China more books like this by Professor Arianne M Gaetano, Professor Tamara Jacka add to wishlist In China in recent years, one of the most dramatic and significant manifestations of modernization and globalization has been a massive increase in rural-to-urban migration. Termed the 'floating population' and numbering upwards of 100 million, these rural migrants are at the front line of both domestic and global capitalist development, working ... see all copies from $16.99! new only from $19.95! \| first editions
22 view cover	Development and Displacement more books like this by Dr. Jenny Robinson (Editor) add to wishlist Development and Displacement draws together a number of emergent challenges to the practices and theories of development in the contemporary world, associated with forms of displacement. Starting with the headline-grabbing emergencies associated with forced displacement, both international and within states, the book moves on to explore the often ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $2.76! \| first editions
23 view cover	Exodus Within Borders more books like this by David A Korn add to wishlist The end of the millennium finds some 25 million people worldwide displaced by civil wars or violations of human rights, but still in their own countries and with no redress. This humanitarian challenge examined here poses a threat to security, stability and economic well-being of all continents. see all copies from $3.58! new only from $27.92! \| first editions
24 view cover	Desert Regions more books like this by Boris A Portnov, A Paul Hare (Editor) add to wishlist The book addresses three distinctive aspects of desert development: regional planning, urban environment and building. It summarizes the results of 20 years of research carried out by the Center for Desert Architecture and Urban Planning at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. In contrast to other books on desert development, the book ... see all copies from $46.76! new only from $46.76!
25 view cover	Migration in European History more books like this by Klaus J Bade, Professor Allison Brown (Translator) add to wishlist Since the opening of the Iron Curtain, migration has become a major cause for concern in many European countries. However, migrations to, from and within Europe are nothing new, as Klaus J. Bade reminds us in this timely book. Bade presents a history of European migration over a range of eras, countries and migration types, examining the driving ... see all copies from $19.00! new only from $89.96! \| first editions

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