Expelling the poor : Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy / Hidetaka Hirota.
2017
JV6483 .H57 2017
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Title
Expelling the poor : Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy / Hidetaka Hirota.
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ISBN
9780190619244 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
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JV6483 .H57 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
325.7309034
Summary
'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.
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'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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 12, 2016).
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Print version: 9780190619213
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