Umfang:
Online-Ressource (273 p)
ISBN:
9780691133966
Inhalt:
True Faith and Allegiance is a provocative account of nationalism and the politics of turning immigrants into citizens and Americans. Noah Pickus offers an alternative to the wild swings between emotionally fraught positions on immigration and citizenship of the past two decades. Drawing on political theory, history, and law, he argues for a renewed civic nationalism that melds principles and peoplehood. This tradition of civic nationalism held sway at America's founding and in the Progressive Era. Pickus explores how, from James Madison to Teddy Roosevelt, its proponents sought to combine r
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Nation's Founding; CHAPTER TWO: Alienage and Nationalism in the Early Republic; CHAPTER THREE: The Free White Clause of 1790; CHAPTER FOUR: Americanization and Pluralism in the Progressive Era; CHAPTER FIVE: Nationalism in the Progressive Era; CHAPTER SIX: World War I and the Turn to Coercion; CHAPTER SEVEN: Immigration and Citizenship at Century's End; CHAPTER EIGHT: A New Civic Nationalism; Epilogue; Notes; Index;
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781400826919
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780691121727
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe True Faith and Allegiance : Immigration and American Civic Nationalism
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
