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

by John Higham. 436 pgs.

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Contributors:

   John Higham

Publisher:

   Rutgers University Press

Place of Publication:

  New Brunswick, NJ  

Publication Year:

  1955
Subjects:   Prejudices, United States--Foreign Population, United States--Emigration And Immigration
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Contents
Preface ix
1 PATTERNS IN THE MAKING 3
2 THE AGE OF CONFIDENCE 12
Postwar America Beckons Cosmopolitan Traditions The Ethnocentric Residue The Nativist Heritage 14
3 CRISIS IN THE EIGHTIES 35
Social Chasms and Anxious Reformers Militant Labor and Adamant Capital Beginning of Hysteria Limits of the New Nativism 36
4 THE NATIONALIST NINETIES 68
Unrest in an Age of Depression Anti-Catholicism Rampant Nationalism and the New Immigrants Immigration Restriction 68
5 THE RETURN OF CONFIDENCE 106
Conquest and Harmony Progressive Democracy The Immigrants Fight Back 107
6 TOWARD RACISM: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA 131
From Romanticism to Naturalism Patricians on the Defensive Optimistic Crosscurrents Enter the Natural Scientists 133
7 THE LOSS OF CONFIDENCE 158
The Ethnocentric Background Grass Roots of Anglo-Saxon Nativism Anti-Radical and Anti- Catholic Revivals 1914: Summit of Prewar Nativism The Failure of Restriction 159
8 WAR AND REVOLUTION 194
Hyphens and Preparedness 100 Per Cent Americamsm A Common Cause The Nativist Traditions in Wartime Big Red Scare 195
9 CRUSADE FOR AMERICANIZATION 234
Prewar Origins 100 Per Cent Americanized The International Nationalists Last Phase: Antidote to Bolshevism 235
10 THE TRIBAL TWENTIES 264
Blighted New World Flowering of Racism The International Jew The Klan Rides 265
11 CLOSING THE GATES 300
Restriction Reconsidered The First Percentage Law Deadlock, 1921-1923 The Nordic Victory Ebb Tide 301
Notes 331
Bibliograpbical Note 399
Index 413
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