Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy

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Book Review| April 01 2018 Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy. By Hidetaka Hirota. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 301 pp. Figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $35 (cloth). Luke Ritter Luke Ritter Troy University Luke Ritter is a lecturer in history at Troy University and the author of several scholarly articles on nineteenth-century immigration, nativism, and religion. He is currently preparing a book manuscript on the origins of American nativism in the antebellum West. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2018) 37 (3): 116–117. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.3.0116 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Luke Ritter; Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2018; 37 (3): 116–117. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.3.0116 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.