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Revisiting John Higham's Strangers in the Land: Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2012

Timothy Meagher
Timothy Meagher*
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Catholic University of America
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meagher@cua.edu
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 282 - 290
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2012

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References

1 Ross, Dorothy, “In Memoriam: John Higham,” Perspectives 41 (Oct. 2003)Google Scholar. Page citations in the text refer to the essays in this forum.

2 Higham, John, “The Reorientation of American Culture in the 1890s” in Higham, Writing American History: Essays on Modern Scholarship (Bloomington, IN, 1970)Google Scholar, ch. 4.

3 Higham, John, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925, rev. ed. (New Brunswick, NJ, 2002), 35Google Scholar.

4 Williams, William, Twas Only an Irishman's Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800–1920 (Urbana, 1996), 138Google Scholar.

5 Higham, Strangers in the Land, 57.

6 Ibid., 96, 172.

7 Ibid., 271, 329.

8 Higham, Strangers in the Land, 335–36.

9 See also Dinnerstein, Leonard and Reimers, David, “John Higham and Immigration History,” Journal of American Ethnic History 24 (Fall 2004): 11Google Scholar.

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12 Higham, Strangers in the Land, 164.

13 Ibid., 71–72, 112, 305–06; Mink, Old Labor and New Immigrants; Greene, Julie, Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor, 1881–1917 (New York, 1998)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

14 New York Times Jan. 18, 1913; Dec. 30, 1914; and Jan. 27, 1915; Higham, Strangers in the Land, 123–24.

15 New York Times Feb. 17, 1914; Jan. 25, 1915.

16 Erie, Steven P., Rainbow's End: Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840–1985 (Berkeley, 1988)Google Scholar; Erie, , “Bringing the Bosses Back In: The Irish Political Machines and Urban Policy Making,” Studies in American Political Development 4 (Mar. 1990): 269–81CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Connolly, James J., An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America (Ithaca, NY, 2010)Google Scholar, ch. 6.

17 New York Times, Dec. 30, 1914.