{"product_id":"2940013822207","title":"OUR FOREIGNERS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                Page\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        I. OPENING THE DOOR             1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       II. THE AMERICAN STOCK          21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      III. THE NEGRO                   45\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IV. UTOPIAS IN AMERICA          66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        V. THE IRISH INVASION         103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       VI. THE TEUTONIC TIDE          124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      VII. THE CALL OF THE LAND       147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VIII. THE CITY BUILDERS          162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IX. THE ORIENTAL               188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        X. RACIAL INFILTRATION        208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XI. THE GUARDED DOOR           221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e           BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE       235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e           INDEX                      241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOUR FOREIGNERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOPENING THE DOOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong before men awoke to the vision of America, the Old World was the\u003cbr\u003escene of many stupendous migrations. One after another, the Goths, the\u003cbr\u003eHuns, the Saracens, the Turks, and the Tatars, by the sheer tidal\u003cbr\u003eforce of their numbers threatened to engulf the ancient and medieval\u003cbr\u003ecivilization of Europe. But neither in the motives prompting them nor\u003cbr\u003ein the effect they produced, nor yet in the magnitude of their\u003cbr\u003enumbers, will such migrations bear comparison with the great exodus of\u003cbr\u003eEuropean peoples which in the course of three centuries has made the\u003cbr\u003eUnited States of America. That movement of races--first across the sea\u003cbr\u003eand then across the land to yet another sea, which set in with the\u003cbr\u003eEnglish occupation of Virginia in 1607 and which has continued from\u003cbr\u003ethat day to this an almost ceaseless stream of millions of human\u003cbr\u003ebeings seeking in the New World what was denied them in the Old--has\u003cbr\u003eno parallel in history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was not until the seventeenth century that the door of the\u003cbr\u003ewilderness of North America was opened by Englishmen; but, if we are\u003cbr\u003einterested in the circumstances and ideas which turned Englishmen\u003cbr\u003ethither, we must look back into the wonderful sixteenth century--and\u003cbr\u003eeven into the fifteenth, for; it was only five or six years after the\u003cbr\u003egreat Christopher's discovery, that the Cabots, John and Sebastian,\u003cbr\u003eraised the Cross of St. George on the North American coast. Two\u003cbr\u003egenerations later, when the New World was pouring its treasure into\u003cbr\u003ethe lap of Spain and when all England was pulsating with the new and\u003cbr\u003enoble life of the Elizabethan Age, the sea captains of the Great Queen\u003cbr\u003echallenged the Spanish monarch, defeated his Great Armada, and\u003cbr\u003eunfurled the English flag, symbol of a changing era, in every sea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe political and economic thought of the sixteenth century was\u003cbr\u003econducive to imperial expansion. The feudal fragments of kingdoms were\u003cbr\u003ebeing fused into a true nationalism. It was the day of the\u003cbr\u003emercantilists, when gold and silver were given a grotesquely\u003cbr\u003eexaggerated place in the national economy and self-sufficiency was\u003cbr\u003edeemed to be the goal of every great nation. Freed from the restraint\u003cbr\u003eof rivals, the nation sought to produce its own raw material, control\u003cbr\u003eits own trade, and carry its own goods in its own ships to its own\u003cbr\u003emarkets. This economic doctrine appealed with peculiar force to the\u003cbr\u003epeople of England. England was very far from being self-sustaining.\u003cbr\u003eShe was obliged to import salt, sugar, dried fruits, wines, silks,\u003cbr\u003ecotton, potash, naval stores, and many other necessary commodities.\u003cbr\u003eEven of the fish which formed a staple food on the English workman's\u003cbr\u003etable, two-thirds of the supply was purchased from the Dutch.\u003cbr\u003eMoreover, wherever English traders sought to take the products of\u003cbr\u003eEnglish industry, mostly woolen goods, they were met by\u003cbr\u003ehandicaps--tariffs, Sound dues, monopolies, exclusions, retaliations,\u003cbr\u003eand even persecutions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo England was eager to expand under her own flag. With the fresh\u003cbr\u003ecourage and buoyancy of youth she fitted out ships and sent forth\u003cbr\u003eexpeditions. And while she shared with the rest of the Europeans the\u003cbr\u003evision of India and the Orient, her \"gentlemen adventurers\" were not\u003cbr\u003elong in seeing the possibilities that lay concealed beyond the\u003cbr\u003einviting harbors, the navigable rivers, and the forest-covered valleys\u003cbr\u003eof North America.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070379475184,"sku":"2940013822207","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013822207_p0.jpg?v=1763595164","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013822207","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}