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Lincoln and the immigrant / Jason H. Silverman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silverman, Jason H., author.
- Series:
- Concise Lincoln library.
- Concise Lincoln Library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Relations with immigrants.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Political and social views.
- Immigrants--United States--History--19th century.
- Immigrants.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (116 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale, [Illinois] : Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Between 1840 and 1860, America received more than four and a half million people from foreign countries as permanent residents, including a huge influx of newcomers from northern and western Europe, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans who became U.S.
- Contents:
- Uncertainty: a clash of images
- Awakening: coming of age in Springfield
- Enlightenment: keeping afloat in the era of the Know Nothings
- Wisdom: Whig in the White House
- Certainty: the great emancipator or the great egalitarian?
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-3435-6
- OCLC:
- 921007920
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