Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925Rutgers University Press, 1988 - 447 strani Nativism has been hard for historians to define. The word is distinctively American, a product of a specific chain of events in eastern American cities in the late 1830's and early 1840's. Yet it has a meaning so broad and indefinite that sometimes it seems to refer to a perennial human experience. Does nativism consist only of a particular complex of attitudes dominant in the anti-foreign crusade of the mid-nineteenth century? Or does it extend to every occasion when native inhabitants of a country turn their faces or raise their hands against strangers in their midst? What is nativism? |
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... a sub- sidiary manifestation of the 100 per cent spirit as long as the German menace was unquelled . It was one thing to call the radi- cals German agents but quite another to equate radicalism with the whole foreign population . Thus ...
... a sub- sidiary manifestation of the 100 per cent spirit as long as the German menace was unquelled . It was one thing to call the radi- cals German agents but quite another to equate radicalism with the whole foreign population . Thus ...
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... per- sistently worked to enforce the 100 per cent American ethic of coercive conformity . The success of the Klan awaited , however , the return of a climate of opinion congenial to its own distinctive background . The period of ...
... per- sistently worked to enforce the 100 per cent American ethic of coercive conformity . The success of the Klan awaited , however , the return of a climate of opinion congenial to its own distinctive background . The period of ...
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... 100 per cent American . The United States has nothing to be concerned about , Rogers declared happily . " The next time a Poli- tician gets spouting off about what this Country needs , either hit him with a tubercular Tomato or lay ...
... 100 per cent American . The United States has nothing to be concerned about , Rogers declared happily . " The next time a Poli- tician gets spouting off about what this Country needs , either hit him with a tubercular Tomato or lay ...
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Preface to the Second Edition ix | 3 |
THE AGE OF CONFIDENCE | 12 |
The Ethnocentric Residue 23 The Nativist | 28 |
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Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 John Higham Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1955 |
Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 John Higham Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1955 |
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