Book excerpt: "... an excellent broad overview... " --Journal of Social History "... powerfully argued... " --Moses Rischin "... imaginative and soundly based... " --Choice "Highly recommended... " --Library Journal "... an outstanding major contribution to the literature on immigration history." --History "... a very important new synthesis of American immigration history... " --Journal of American Ethnic History "... a state of the art discussion, impressively encyclopaedic... The Transplanted is a tour de force, and a fitting summation to Bodnar's own prolific, creative, and insightful writings on immigrants." --Journal of Interdisciplinary History A major survey of the immigrant experience between 1830 and 1930, this book has implications for all students and scholars of American social history.