Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis : Political Nativism in the Antebellum West / / Luke Ritter.

Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America's first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid influx of 4.2 million immigrants between 1840 and 1860 and culminated in the dramatic rise of the N...

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Place / Publishing House:New York [New York] : : Fordham University Press,, 2021.
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Year of Publication:2021
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Catholic practice in North America.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 EPUB unpaged.)
Notes:Revision of author's thesis (doctroal)--Saint Louis University, 2013, titled Anti-Catholic America : nativism and religious freedom in the antebellum West.
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