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Contents Introduction: Regional Identity in an Age of Immigration 1 1 World Conquerors or a Dying People? Racial Theory, Regional Anxiety, and the Brahmin Anglo-Saxonists 14 2 New Ireland, New France, New England: The Place of Immigrants in American Regionalism 38 3 New England Delicacy: Immigration and the Regional Body 79 4 “Rural New England Is in a State of Transition”: Immigrants and Yankees on the Land 122 5 The New New England: Yankees and Immigrants in the Old Northwest 164 Coda: “The Pilgrims Were Illegal Aliens” 201 Notes 205 Index 247 ...

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