Product Description: Though often dismissed as coincidence, chance, or 'hunches,' many people experience visions (realities beyond one's current space and/or time). Through meditation and unconditional love, Pebbles from the Path teaches readers to recognize and explore visions in daily life...read more

Nativism has been hard for historians to define. The word is distinctively American, a product of a specific chain of events in eastern American cities in the late 1830's and early 1840's. Yet it has a meaning so broad and indefinite that sometimes it seems to refer to a perennial human experience. Does nativism consist only of a particular complex of attitudes dominant in the anti-foreign crusade of the mid-nineteenth century? Or does it extend to every occasion when native inhabitants of a country turn their faces or raise their hands against strangers in their midst? What is nativism?

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Presents five symposium papers on multiculturalism

Product Description: "No one writes more thoughtfully or interestingly about the history of the profession than Higham does." - Laurence Veysey, University of California, Santa Cruz. "A classic in the field, probably the best overall picture of American historiography we have...read more

Product Description: "John Higham, our most distinguished American social and intellectual historian, has the ability to integrate and synthesize superbly the latest scholarship on immigration and ethnic history and nativism".--Victor Greene, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Product Description: Book by Higham, Professor John

Product Description: Book by Higham, Professor John