"An in-depth look at the motivations behind immigration to America from 1607 to 1914, including what attracted people to America, who was trying to attract them, and why.
Between 1820 and 1920, more than 33 million Europeans immigrated to the United States seeking the ""American Dream""—an image of America as a land of opportunity and upward mobility sold to them by state governments, railroads, religious and philanthropic groups, and other boosters. But Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson shows that the desire to make and keep America a ""white man's country"" meant that only Northern Europeans would be recruited as settlers and future citizens while Africans, Asians, and other non-whites would either be grudgingly tolerated as slaves or guest workers or be excluded entirely.
This book reframes immigration policy as an extension of American labor policy and connects the removal of American Indians from their lands to the settlement of European immigrants across the North American continent. Ziegler-McPherson contends that western and midwestern states with large American Indian, Asian, or Mexican populations developed aggressive policies to promote immigration from Europe to help displace those peoples, while Southern states sought to reduce their dependency upon Black labor by doing the same. Chapters highlight the promotional policies and migration demographics for each region of the United States."
By:
Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson (Historian USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: NIPPOD
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9798765126264
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 30 May 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1. Tenants Wanted: The Promotion of Immigration to the New World, 1607–1776 2. Antebellum Immigration Promotion by States, 1845–1860 3. Corporate Immigration Promotion and Labor Recruitment in the 19th Century 4. Selling the Promised Land: Religious and Philanthropic Promotion 5. Immigration Promotion in the Midwest, 1865–1914 6. Immigration Promotion in the West, 1865–1914 7. Immigration Promotion in the South, 1865–1914 Conclusion Appendix: Tables Notes Further Reading Index
Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson is a public historian and museum curator. She holds a doctorate in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Reviews for Selling America: Immigration Promotion and the Settlement of the American Continent, 1607–1914
Overall, by collecting information about the diverse recruitment efforts into a single source, the book will provide a valuable addition to the literature covering U.S. immigration and ethnic history. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries. * Choice *
