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Old and new New Englanders : immigration & regional identity in the Gilded Age /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams, Bluford
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Group identity > New England.
Regionalism > New England.
New England > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Regional identity in an age of immigration
  • World conquerors or a dying people? Racial theory, regional anxiety, and the Brahmin Anglo-Saxonists
  • New Ireland, New France, New England: the place of immigrants in American regionalism
  • New England delicacy: immigration and the regional body
  • "Rural New England is in a state of transition": immigrants and Yankees on the land
  • The new New England: Yankees and immigrants in the Old Northwest
  • Coda: "The pilgrims were illegal aliens".