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Paperback Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis: Political Nativism in the Antebellum West Book

ISBN: 0823289850

ISBN13: 9780823289851

Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis: Political Nativism in the Antebellum West

(Part of the Catholic Practice in North America Series)

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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 National American Party. As previous studies have focused on the coasts, historians have not yet completely explained why westerners joined the ranks of the...

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