| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 1880–1925. By Melissa R. Klapper. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. xx, 219 pp. $27.50, ISBN 978-1-56663-733-6.)

This slim, accessible volume presents a concise history of the immigrant generation that came of age in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Drawing from recent scholarship and primary sources, many of them well known, Melissa R. Klapper nevertheless makes her work distinctive. Whereas most immigrant histories aspiring to synthesis focus disproportionately on the "new" (European) immigrants to the metropolitan crescent stretching from Boston to Chicago, Klapper's is a truly national study encapsulating the West and South in addition to the industrial Northeast. This wide lens allows her to cover a greater variety of socioeconomic landscapes than appear in most studies of this type. It also facilitates the incorporation of Asian and Latino (principally Mexican) perspectives as equal, rather than ancillary, actors in the narrative.

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