Mark Wyman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Wyman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Wyman |
| SIGNATURE | WYMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Knock at the Door
Donald Harman Akenson. Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration, 1815–1914
The massive nineteenth-century emigrations from Ireland and Sweden, long favored subjects for historians and novelists, are given a new examination in this economic-demographic study that finds many bases for comparison. Donald Harman Akenson has mined the varied statistics of the Irish and Swedish pasts while subjecting earlier writings to a critical, often stinging, evaluation. His main focus, of course, is on Sweden's agricultural disasters of…
The Huddled Masses
Book Review| October 01 2002 The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921 The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921, Alan M. Kraut. Mark Wyman Mark Wyman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 22 (1): 70–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501246 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mark W…
Return migration ‐ old story, new story
This article locates the phenomenon of return migration within a broader history of European and American experiences. It argues that by studying return migration we can perhaps better understand some apparent contradictions in the broader themes of migration history. For example, by considering the patterns of, and motivations for, return migration from America to Europe, we are able to probe why some countries were severely damaged both economi…
The Wisconsin Frontier
Journal Article The Wisconsin Frontier. By Mark Wyman. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xx, 336 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33414-4.) Get access Jerry Apps Jerry Apps Emeritus University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pages 1010–1011, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675305 Published: 01 December 2000
The Wisconsin Frontier
The Wisconsin Frontier
Journal Article The Wisconsin Frontier Get access The Wisconsin Frontier. By Wyman Mark. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xviii + 336 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $29.95.) Elizabeth A. Kessel Elizabeth A. Kessel Anne Arundel Community College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 3, Autumn 1999, Pages 377–378, https://do…
Round-Trip to America
Round-Trip to America
Round-Trip to America
Special Sorrows
Journal Article Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. xiv, 321 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-83185-3.) Get access Mark Wyman Mark Wyman Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pag…
Round-Trip to America
Round-Trip to America
Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States. Other scholars have dealt with particular national groups... but Wyman is the first to treat... every major group.... Wyman explains returning to Europe as not just the fulfillment of original intentions but also the result of 'anger at bosses and clocks, nostalgia for waiting families,' nativist r…
DP, Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945-1951
Immigrants in the Valley
The Transplanted-A History of Immigrants in Urban America
Immigrants in the Valley
Journal Article Immigrants in the Valley: Irish, Germans, and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1830–1860. By Mark Wyman. (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1984. xiii + 258 pp. Map, illustrations, sources, and index. $35.95.) Get access Walter D. Kamphoefner Walter D. Kamphoefner University of Miami Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 3, December 1984, Pages 627–628…
Ores to Metals
Journal Article Ores to Metals: The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry Get access Ores to Metals: The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry. By Fell James E.Jr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. xi + 341 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $21.50.) Mark Wyman Mark Wyman Illinois State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 2, April 198…
Hard-Rock Epic
Georgakas' presentist attack on A Man Called Horse (1970) as a revisionist but flawed treatment of Indians.Film studies is a new field of scholarly endeavor-scarcely more than a decade old in the United States.The variety of approaches in these essays suggests a healthy diversity in the field.Yet historians are likely to find most of these readings heavy on close scrutiny and light on milieu.Perhaps followers of Clio need to take a more active pa…
Hard Rock Epic
Journal Article Hard Rock Epic: Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860–1910. By Mark Wyman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. x + 331 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.95.) Get access Duane A. Smith Duane A. Smith Fort Lewis College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 4, March 1980, Pages 945–946, https:/…
The Hard Rock Epic
Georgakas' presentist attack on A Man Called Horse (1970) as a revisionist but flawed treatment of Indians.Film studies is a new field of scholarly endeavor-scarcely more than a decade old in the United States.The variety of approaches in these essays suggests a healthy diversity in the field.Yet historians are likely to find most of these readings heavy on close scrutiny and light on milieu.Perhaps followers of Clio need to take a more active pa…
Hard Rock Epic. Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860-1910
Journal Article Hard Rock Epic. Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860–1910 Get access Hard Rock Epic. Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860–1910. By Wyman Mark. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. x + 331 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $15.95.) Ronald C. Brown Ronald C. Brown Southwest Texas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Hist…
Books reviewed
Biographical Dictionary of American Labor Leaders. Edited by Gary M. Fink. Westport, Conn.: Grenwood Press, 1974. xiv, 559 pp. $19.95. Nowhere at Home: Letters from Exile of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. Edited by Richard and Anna Drinnon. New York: Schocken Books, 1975. 282 pp. $12.95. Union Power and Public Policy. Edited by David Lipsky. Ithaca, New York: New York State School of Industrial Relations, 1975. 301 pp. $9.75; $8.00 paper. Th…
The Time of the Buffalo
Journal Article The Time of the Buffalo. By Tom McHugh. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. xxiv + 339 + xi pp. Maps, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $10.00.) Get access Mark Wyman Mark Wyman Illinois State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 1, June 1975, Pages 148–149, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901358 Published: 01 June 1975
Wisconsin
Journal Article Wisconsin: A History. By Robert C. Nesbit. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973. xiv + 607 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, general bibliography, and index. $12.50.) Get access Mark Wyman Mark Wyman Illinois State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 3, December 1974, Page 796, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899973 Published…
Round-Trip to America
Special Sorrows
Journal Article Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. xiv, 321 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-83185-3.) Get access Mark Wyman Mark Wyman Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pag…
Return migration ‐ old story, new story
This article locates the phenomenon of return migration within a broader history of European and American experiences. It argues that by studying return migration we can perhaps better understand some apparent contradictions in the broader themes of migration history. For example, by considering the patterns of, and motivations for, return migration from America to Europe, we are able to probe why some countries were severely damaged both economi…
Industrial Revolution in the West
Journal Article Industrial Revolution in the West: Hard-Rock Miners and the New Technology Get access Mark Wyman Mark Wyman assistant professor of history Illinois State University. A version of this paper was presented at the Twelfth Annual Western History Conference in New Haven, Connecticut, October 12, 1972 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1974, P…
Wisconsin
Journal Article Wisconsin: A History. By Robert C. Nesbit. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973. xiv + 607 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, general bibliography, and index. $12.50.) Get access Mark Wyman Mark Wyman Illinois State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 3, December 1974, Page 796, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899973 Published…
Industrial Revolution in the West
Journal Article Industrial Revolution in the West: Hard-Rock Miners and the New Technology Get access Mark Wyman Mark Wyman assistant professor of history Illinois State University. A version of this paper was presented at the Twelfth Annual Western History Conference in New Haven, Connecticut, October 12, 1972 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1974, P…
Books reviewed
Biographical Dictionary of American Labor Leaders. Edited by Gary M. Fink. Westport, Conn.: Grenwood Press, 1974. xiv, 559 pp. $19.95. Nowhere at Home: Letters from Exile of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. Edited by Richard and Anna Drinnon. New York: Schocken Books, 1975. 282 pp. $12.95. Union Power and Public Policy. Edited by David Lipsky. Ithaca, New York: New York State School of Industrial Relations, 1975. 301 pp. $9.75; $8.00 paper. Th…
The Time of the Buffalo
Journal Article The Time of the Buffalo. By Tom McHugh. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. xxiv + 339 + xi pp. Maps, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $10.00.) Get access Mark Wyman Mark Wyman Illinois State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 1, June 1975, Pages 148–149, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901358 Published: 01 June 1975
Hard Rock Epic
Journal Article Hard Rock Epic: Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860–1910. By Mark Wyman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. x + 331 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.95.) Get access Duane A. Smith Duane A. Smith Fort Lewis College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 4, March 1980, Pages 945–946, https:/…
The Hard Rock Epic
Georgakas' presentist attack on A Man Called Horse (1970) as a revisionist but flawed treatment of Indians.Film studies is a new field of scholarly endeavor-scarcely more than a decade old in the United States.The variety of approaches in these essays suggests a healthy diversity in the field.Yet historians are likely to find most of these readings heavy on close scrutiny and light on milieu.Perhaps followers of Clio need to take a more active pa…
Hard Rock Epic. Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860-1910
Journal Article Hard Rock Epic. Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860–1910 Get access Hard Rock Epic. Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860–1910. By Wyman Mark. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. x + 331 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $15.95.) Ronald C. Brown Ronald C. Brown Southwest Texas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Hist…
Ores to Metals
Journal Article Ores to Metals: The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry Get access Ores to Metals: The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry. By Fell James E.Jr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. xi + 341 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $21.50.) Mark Wyman Mark Wyman Illinois State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 2, April 198…
Hard-Rock Epic
Georgakas' presentist attack on A Man Called Horse (1970) as a revisionist but flawed treatment of Indians.Film studies is a new field of scholarly endeavor-scarcely more than a decade old in the United States.The variety of approaches in these essays suggests a healthy diversity in the field.Yet historians are likely to find most of these readings heavy on close scrutiny and light on milieu.Perhaps followers of Clio need to take a more active pa…
Immigrants in the Valley
Journal Article Immigrants in the Valley: Irish, Germans, and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1830–1860. By Mark Wyman. (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1984. xiii + 258 pp. Map, illustrations, sources, and index. $35.95.) Get access Walter D. Kamphoefner Walter D. Kamphoefner University of Miami Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 3, December 1984, Pages 627–628…
The Transplanted-A History of Immigrants in Urban America
Immigrants in the Valley
DP, Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945-1951
Round-Trip to America
Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States. Other scholars have dealt with particular national groups... but Wyman is the first to treat... every major group.... Wyman explains returning to Europe as not just the fulfillment of original intentions but also the result of 'anger at bosses and clocks, nostalgia for waiting families,' nativist r…
Round-Trip to America
Round-Trip to America
Round-Trip to America
Special Sorrows
Journal Article Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States. By Matthew Frye Jacobson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. xiv, 321 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-83185-3.) Get access Mark Wyman Mark Wyman Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pag…
Round-Trip to America
The Wisconsin Frontier
The Wisconsin Frontier
Journal Article The Wisconsin Frontier Get access The Wisconsin Frontier. By Wyman Mark. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xviii + 336 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $29.95.) Elizabeth A. Kessel Elizabeth A. Kessel Anne Arundel Community College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 3, Autumn 1999, Pages 377–378, https://do…
The Wisconsin Frontier
Journal Article The Wisconsin Frontier. By Mark Wyman. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. xx, 336 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33414-4.) Get access Jerry Apps Jerry Apps Emeritus University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pages 1010–1011, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675305 Published: 01 December 2000
Return migration ‐ old story, new story
This article locates the phenomenon of return migration within a broader history of European and American experiences. It argues that by studying return migration we can perhaps better understand some apparent contradictions in the broader themes of migration history. For example, by considering the patterns of, and motivations for, return migration from America to Europe, we are able to probe why some countries were severely damaged both economi…
The Huddled Masses
Book Review| October 01 2002 The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921 The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921, Alan M. Kraut. Mark Wyman Mark Wyman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 22 (1): 70–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501246 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mark W…
Donald Harman Akenson. Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration, 1815–1914
The massive nineteenth-century emigrations from Ireland and Sweden, long favored subjects for historians and novelists, are given a new examination in this economic-demographic study that finds many bases for comparison. Donald Harman Akenson has mined the varied statistics of the Irish and Swedish pasts while subjecting earlier writings to a critical, often stinging, evaluation. His main focus, of course, is on Sweden's agricultural disasters of…
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