Day of Empire_ How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--And Why They Fall - Amy Chua [202]
15. Roger Daniels, Noi Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924 (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 1997), p. ix; Daniels and Graham, Debating American Immigration, pp. 12-18; Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 241-60; Neidle, The New Americans, p. 26. The population estimates are from Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People, pp. 564-65; and Kristofer Allerfeldt, Race, Radicalism, Religion, and Restriction: Immigration in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1924 (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003), pp. 33-34.
16. There is a large literature on the subject of party bosses and urban politics. My discussion draws principally on Daniel Patrick Moynihan, “The Irish of New York,” in Laurence H. Fuchs, ed., American Ethnic Politics (New York: Harper & Row, 1968), pp. 77-83; Tyler Anbinder, “ ‘Boss’ Tweed: Nativist,” Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 15, no. 1 (Spring 1995), pp. 109-16; Elmer E. Cornwall, Jr., “Bosses, Machines, and Ethnic Groups,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 353 (May 1964), pp. 27-39; Humbert S. Nelli, “John Powers and the Italians: Politics in a Chicago Ward: 1896-1921,” The Journal of American History, vol. 57, no. 1 (June 1970), pp. 67-84. See also Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor, American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 2000).
17. See Kristofer Allerfeldt, Race, Radicalism, Religion, and Restriction, pp. 33-34. On America's “homegrown” religions, see Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People, pp. 387, 501-9, 805-24, 1020-26. For a general history of America's indigenous peoples, see Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970); Edward Lazarus, Black Hills, White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus the United States, 1775 to the Present (New York: HarperCollins, 1991).
18. Max Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (New York: Basic Books, 2002), pp. 39, 62, 129; Kagan, Dangerous Nation, pp. 3021; Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change andMilitary Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), p. 248.
19. See Gordon, An Empire of Wealth, pp. 294, 310-11; William Pfaff, “Mani- fest Destiny: A New Direction for America,” New York Review of Books, Feb. 15, 2007, pp. 54-55.
20. Allerfeldt, Beyond the Huddled Masses, pp. 17, 21, 23, 109; Daniels and Graham, Debating American Immigration, pp. 12-18, 23-25, 27-28, 77, 129.
21. Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, pp. 178-80, 198-202, 2423, 277, 357-60.
22. See Ronald W. Clark, The Birth of the Bomb (New York: Horizon Press, 1961), pp. 1-3, 8-13; Martin J. Sherwin, A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), pp. 49-50; C. P. Snow, The Physicists (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1981), pp. 79-80.
23. On the Soviet Union's deeply contradictory “nationalities” policy, see Valéry Tishkov, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict In and After the Soviet Onion: The Mind Aflame (London: Sage Publications, 1997), pp. 27, 29-31; Francine Hirsch, “The Soviet Union as a Work-in-Progress: Ethnographers and the Category Nationality in the 1926, 1937, and 1939 Censuses,” Slavic Review, vol. 56, no. 2 (1997), pp. 256, 264, 276; Yuri Slezkine, “The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism,” Slavic Review, vol. 53, no. 2 (1994), pp. 416-21.
24. On Soviet attacks on American racism and the U.S. response, see Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press,