True faith and allegiance : immigration and American civic nationalism /

True Faith and Allegiance is a provocative account of nationalism and the politics of turning immigrants into citizens and Americans. Noah Pickus offers an alternative to the wild swings between emotionally fraught positions on immigration and citizenship of the past two decades. Drawing on politica...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Pickus, Noah M. Jedidiah, 1964- (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press 2007.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7t6bd
الوصف
الملخص:True Faith and Allegiance is a provocative account of nationalism and the politics of turning immigrants into citizens and Americans. Noah Pickus offers an alternative to the wild swings between emotionally fraught positions on immigration and citizenship of the past two decades. Drawing on political theory, history, and law, he argues for a renewed civic nationalism that melds principles and peoplehood. This tradition of civic nationalism held sway at America's founding and in the Progressive Era. Pickus explores how, from James Madison to Teddy Roosevelt, its proponents sought to combine reas.
وصف المادة:Originally published: 2005.
وصف مادي:1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages)
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-239) and index.
ردمك:9781400826919
1400826918
1282086685
9781282086685
0691133964
9780691133966