John Higham

Strangers in the Land

Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 150mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780813531236
• ISBN-10: 0813531233
• Artikelnr.: 25551040

Autorenporträt

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). 

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the 2002 Edition
Chapter 1. Patterns in the Making
Chapter 2. The Age of Confidence
Chapter 3. Crisis in the Eighties
Chapter 4. The Nationalist Nineties
Chapter 5. The Return of Confidence
Chapter 6. Toward Racism: The History of an Idea
Chapter 7. The Loss of Confidence
Chapter 8. War and Revolution
Chapter 9. Crusade for Americanization
Chapter 10. The Tribal Twenties
Chapter 11. Closing the Gates
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliographical note
Index