“An incisive look at immigration, assimilation, and national identity” (Kirkus Reviews) and the landmark immigration law that transformed the face of the nation more than fifty years ago, as told through the stories of immigrant ...
A Nation of Nations
Weeks , John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire , p . 47 . 139. See his speech in the Senate “ Continental Rights and Relations ” ( 1853 ) , in William H. Seward , The Works of William H. Seward , 5 vols .
A Nation of Nations: The People who Came to America as Seen Through Objects and Documents Exhibited at the Smithsonian...
But in this thought-provoking collection, twenty-eight writers and scholars give engaging, often passionate accounts of their own nation’s history.
' Hailing from Korea, Bolivia, and Libya, these families have stories that illustrate common immigrant themes: friction between minorities, economic competition and entrepreneurship, and racial and cultural stereotyping.
A groundbreaking study of the foundations of nationalism, exposing its antiquity, strong links with ethnicity and roots in human nature.
• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction • Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is ...
In The Size of Nations, they argue that the optimal size of a country is determined by a cost-benefit trade-off between the benefits of size and the costs of heterogeneity.
Ferguson also writes: Europeans not only work less; they also pray less—and believe less. There was a time when Europe could justly refer to itself as “Chris— tendom.” Europeans built the continent's loveliest edifices to ac— commodate ...