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Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy
Hirota, Hidetaka (Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, City College of New York)
Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy
Hirota, Hidetaka (Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, City College of New York)
Expelling the Poor argues that immigration policies in nineteenth-century New York and Massachusetts, driven by cultural prejudice against the Irish and more fundamentally by economic concerns about their poverty, laid the foundations for American immigration control.
320 pages, 13 illus.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | August 13, 2019 |
ISBN13 | 9780190055561 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 320 |
Dimensions | 233 × 198 × 23 mm · 508 g |