Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1955.
[Second Edition,] Corrected and with a new Preface.
New York: Atheneum, 1963. {I read a 1967 reprint of this 1963 edition.}
[Third Edition,] Corrected.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1988.
[Fourth Edition,] With a new Epilogue.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.
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Author Information:
- John Higham (1920–2003), Wikipedia.
- John Higham, "Instead Of a Sequel, or How I Lost My Subject," Reviews in American History, Volume 28, Number 2, Pages 327-339, June 2000.
[This essay appears as the Epilogue to the 2002 edition of Strangers in the Land.]
Wikipedia Articles:
- History of the United States (1865–1918).
- History of the United States (1918–1945).
- Nativism: United States.
- History of immigration to the United States.
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I read Higham's Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925 after readingHigham commented on Billington's book in the following passage:
"By far the oldest and - in early America - the most powerful of the anti-foreign traditions came out of the shock of the Reformation. Protestant hatred of Rome played so large a part in the pre-Civil War nativist thinking that historians have sometimes regarded nativism and anti-Catholicism as more or less synonymous. This identification, by oversimplifying two complex ideas, does little justice to either. Many social and religions factors, some of them nativistic only in a very indirect sense, have contributed powerfully to anti-Catholic feeling." (page 5, Higham, Strangers in the Land)
Having read some general histories on the period 1860–1925, I think Higham's work provides some notable and distinctive insights. Some histories I've read on this period, as noted in this blog:
- White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896 (2017).
- Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865–1900 (2010).
- Beatty, Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865–1900 (2007).
- McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870–1920 (2003).
- Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877–1920 (1967).
- Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).
- Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (1998).
- Goodwyn, The Populist Moment (1978).
- Brands, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (2002).
- Ginger, Altgeld's America (1958).
- Traxel, Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898–1920 (2006).
- Cooper, Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900–1920 (1990).
- Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (2004).
- Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order, 2e (1997).
- Leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity, 1914–1932, 2e (1993).
- Miller, New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America (2003).
- Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (1931).
- Allen, The Big Change: America Transforms Itself: 1900–1950 (1952).