This book analyzes US immigration policies. The US was open to immigrants from all over the world without restriction for the first 100 years of its national existence; first in 1924, and then again in 1965, immigration policies restricted the number of immigrants allowed to enter. The first group...

"A pretty fair representation of the American people" : the great uprising and pictorial order in Gilded Age America / Joshua Brown -- "Our rights as workingmen" : class traditions and collective action in a nineteenth-century railroad town, Hornellsville, N.Y., 1869-82 / Shelton Stromquist --...

Henry C. Carey : first American economist -- The English classical school in the United States -- Epigones -- Economic thought in the south -- The new life in American economics -- Introductory -- Francis A. Walker -- Two philosophical economists : Simon N. Patten and John Bates Clark --...

The political crisis of the American state: the unsustainable state in a time of unraveling / Lawrence R. Jacobs, Desmond King -- Is inequality a threat to democracy? / John Ferejohn -- The resilient power of the states across the long nineteenth century: an inquiry into a pattern of American...