Making Foreigners : Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600-2000 (Paperback)

1. Introduction; 2. Foreigners and borders in British North America; 3. Logics of revolution; 4. Blacks, Indians, and other aliens in antebellum America; 5. The rise of the federal immigration order; 6. Closing the gates in the early twentieth century; 7. A rights revolution?; 8. Conclusion and coda.