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Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925
John Higham
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Paperback. Num Pages: 447 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Higham's work stands as the seminal work in the history of American nativism. The work is a careful, well-documented study of nationalism and ethnic prejudice, and chronicles the power and violence of these two ideas in American society from 1860 to 1925. He significantly moves beyond previous treatments of nativism, both in chronology and in interpretive sophistication. Higham defines nativism as a defensive type of nationalism or an intense opposition to an internal minority on the grounds of the group's foreign connections. By defining nativism as a set of attitudes or a state of mind, he sets the course for ... Read more
Higham's work stands as the seminal work in the history of American nativism. The work is a careful, well-documented study of nationalism and ethnic prejudice, and chronicles the power and violence of these two ideas in American society from 1860 to 1925. He significantly moves beyond previous treatments of nativism, both in chronology and in interpretive sophistication. Higham defines nativism as a defensive type of nationalism or an intense opposition to an internal minority on the grounds of the group's foreign connections. By defining nativism as a set of attitudes or a state of mind, he sets the course for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813531236
SKU
V9780813531236
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About John Higham
John Higham taught at the University of California at Los Angeles, Rutgers, Columbia, and the University of Michigan before returning to teach at his alma mater, Johns Hopkins, as John Martin Vincent Professor of History in 1971. He was the author of Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture (2001).
Reviews for Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925
This book attempts a general history of the anti-foreign spirit that I have defined as nativism. It tries to show how American nativism evolved its own distinctive patterns, how it has ebbed and flowed under the pressure of successive impulses in American history, how it has fared at every social level and in every section where it left a mark, ... Read more