Barbarian Virtues
Subtitle: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: April 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780809016280
Subjects: United States - 19th Century/Turn of the Century; History: American; History; History - U.S; United States - 20th Century; Emigration & Immigration; International Relations - General; History / United States / General; United States - 19th Century
First sentence: "WE THANK THEE for national prosperity and progress," intoned Bishop Matthew Simpson in his convocation for Philadelphia's Centennial Exposition in 1876, "for valuable discoveries and multiplied inventions, for labor-saving machinery relieving the toiling masses."