The Ethnic Press in the United States: A Historical Analysis and Handbook - Hardcover

by Sally M. Miller (Editor), Sally M. Miller (Other)

A fine scholarly collection that evokes the pre-WW I era when some 1,300 foreign-language newspapers served America's immigrant millions. It consists of essays by qualified scholars on the newspapers of 27 immigrant groups, ranging from the important German and Jewish presses to comparatively obscure ones such as Arabic, Danish, Portuguese, and Ukranian. . . . [T]his volume offers valuable references and suggestive interpretive insights to students of American jouralism, immigration, urbanization, and ethnic studies. Choice

Author Biography

SALLY M. MILLER is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific and Managing Editor of The Pacific Historian.