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. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Catholic practice in North America.
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| 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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Table of Contents:
- The valley of decision
- Culture war
- The power of nativist rhetoric
- The Order of Know-Nothings and secret democracy
- Crime, poverty, and the economic origins of political nativism
- From anti-Catholicism to church-state separation
- The specter of anti-Catholicism, new nativism, and the ascendancy of religious freedom.