John Higham is Professor Emeritus of History at The Johns Hopkins University. He is past president of the Organization of American Historians and of the Immigration History Society
Preface to the 2002 Edition
p. xi
Patterns in the Making
p. 3
The Age of Confidence
p. 12
Postwar America Beckons
p. 14
Cosmopolitan Traditions
p. 19
The Ethnocentric Residue
p. 23
The Nativist Heritage
p. 28
Crisis in the Eighties
p. 35
Social Chasms and Anxious Reformers
p. 36
Militant Labor and Adamant Capital
p. 45
Beginning of Hysteria
p. 52
Limits of the New Nativism
p. 63
The Nationalist Nineties
p. 68
Unrest in an Age of Depression
p. 68
Anti-Catholicism Rampant
p. 77
Nationalism and the New Immigrants
p. 87
Immigration Restriction
p. 97
The Return of Confidence
p. 106
Conquest and Harmony
p. 107
Progressive Democracy
p. 116
The Immigrants Fight Back
p. 123
Toward Racism: The History of an Idea
p. 131
From Romanticism to Naturalism
p. 133
Patricians on the Defensive
p. 136
Optimistic Crosscurrents
p. 144
Enter the Natural Scientists
p. 149
The Loss of Confidence
p. 158
The Ethnocentric Background
p. 159
Grass Roots of Anglo-Saxon Nativism
p. 165
Anti-Radical and Anti-Catholic Revivals
p. 175
1914: Summit of Prewar Nativism
p. 183
The Failure of Restriction
p. 186
War and Revolution
p. 194
Hyphens and Preparedness
p. 195
100 Per Cent Americanism
p. 204
A Common Cause
p. 212
The Nativist Traditions in Wartime
p. 217
Big Red Scare
p. 222
Crusade for Americanization
p. 234
Prewar Origins
p. 235
100 Per Cent Americanized
p. 242
The International Nationalists
p. 250
Last Phase: Antidote to Bolshevism
p. 254
The Tribal Twenties
p. 264
Blighted New World
p. 265
Flowering of Racism
p. 270
The International Jew
p. 277
The Klan Rides
p. 286
Closing the Gates
p. 300
Restriction Reconsidered
p. 301
The First Percentage Law
p. 308
Deadlock, 1921-1923
p. 312
The Nordic Victory
p. 316
Ebb Tide
p. 324
Epilogue
p. 331
Notes
p. 347
Bibliographical Note
p. 415
Index
p. 429
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