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...Irish migration began to recede, a second great wave -- of Germans (or perhaps more properly, German speakers) -- began. As Oscar Handlin pointed out in his classic study The Uprooted, most 19th century European immigrants thought of themselves not as ex-citizens of a national state (which, in the case of Poland, for instance, did not even exist) but as speakers of a common tongue, or residents of a particular village or province. The Germans were lured by the vision of unlimited economic opportunity and greater freedom than Central Europe offered in the post-Napoleonic...
...Handlin was Harvard's Carl H. Pforzheimer University professor of history, specializing in American history and immigration...
...Handlin] is one of the preeminent figures in the American historical profession," said Donald H. Fleming, Trumbull professor of American history...
...Handlin won a 1952 Pulitzer Prize for history with Uprooted, one of 31 books he wrote or edited. "[H]e has charged his pages with poetry and feeling," said a New York Times book review...
While at Harvard, Handlin also served as director of the Harvard University Library and the Charles Warren Center for studies in American history. He is now Carl M. Loeb University professor emeritus...