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Brought forth on this continent : Abraham Lincoln and American immigration / Harold Holzer.

Summary:

"From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln's grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation's demographics, culture, and--perhaps most significantly--voting patterns. America's newest residents fueled the national economy, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape, and exposed an ugly, at times violent, vein of nativist bigotry. Abraham Lincoln's rise ran parallel to this turmoil; even Lincoln himself did not always rise above it. Tensions over immigration would split and ultimately destroy Lincoln's Whig Party years before the Civil War. Yet the war would make clear just how important immigrants were, and how interwoven they had become in American society." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780451489012
ISBN: 0451489012
Physical Description: 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Dutton, [2024]
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-438) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	For the encouragement of immigration -- A world in miniature -- So much savage feeling -- No objection to fuse with any body -- Our equals in all things -- A vital part of freedom -- Teutonic expectants -- I fights mit Sigel -- God bless the Irish flag -- More of the quarrel -- This noble effort -- Scattered to the winds.