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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
2007.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7t6bd |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: 2005. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-239) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400826919 1400826918 1282086685 9781282086685 0691133964 9780691133966 |