Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925

Author: 
Higham, John
Year: 
2002
Publisher: 
Rutgers University Press
Publication Location: 
New Brunswick, N.J.
Description: 

Explains sources and impact of American nativism which flourished during the great cycle of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Higham's analysis of the different strains of nativism, from anti-foreign to anti-radical and anti-Catholic, is considered masterful and is relied on by scholars today.

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