This book contains an early 19th century account of the author's travels along the Atlantic seaboard with lengthy commentaries on a wide range of cultural observations in urban and rural areas.
An Englishman travels through New York and elsewhere in the Mid-Atlantic, heading north to Canada. Boardman discusses history, politics, manners, and church-related matters.
Expelling the Poor argues that immigration policies in nineteenth-century New York and Massachusetts, driven by cultural prejudice against the Irish and more fundamentally by economic concerns about their poverty, laid the foundations for ...