Shaping Our Nation How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics

Name: Shaping Our Nation How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics
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ISBN: 9780307461513

ISBN-10: 0307461513

ISBN-13: 9780307461513

Edition: 2013

Authors: Michael Barone

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New York Times bestselling author, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Fox News contributor Michael Barone reveals the power and lasting influence of migrations on American history, economics, politics, and culture over the last three centuries.If you could be transported back in time 400 years and view the world in 1600, you would find most of the concentrations of population--China, India, the Muslim world, Western Europe, and Russia--very familiar. But North America then was vastly different from today. It was not vacant, but Indian civilizations had only the slightest of connections to the more advanced societies of Europe and Asia, and their peoples were to suffer…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Michael Barone is senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and a Fox News Channel contributor.



Preface: A Story for Our Time



The Fighting Scots-Irish



Yankees and Grandees



The Irish and Germans



Incomplete Conquest



Promised Lands



Migrations of Choice


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index