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"Asylum for mankind" : America, 1607-1800 Marilyn C. Baseler
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks JV6451.B37 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baseler, Marilyn C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--United States--History.
- Immigrants.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Immigrants--United States--History.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 353 p. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.
- Contents:
- 1. The Demographic Roots of Empire 2. The Creation of the Colonial Asylum 3. The Best Poor Man's Country 4. Immigration and the American Revolution 5. Land of Liberty: The Republican Challenge 6. Republican Immigrant Policies in the 1780s 7. Immigrants and Politics in the 1790s 8. Asylum of Liberty: The Legacy of the Eighteenth Century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-340) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- ISBN:
- 0801434815 (cloth : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 38206778
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