". . . enthralling early letters from a genius in the making"--Culture Supplement to the Sunday Times, 29 July 2007

"Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language. He was also one of the most entertaining--and prolific--correspondents. . . . James's correspondence, its editors estimate, will run to at least 140 volumes and will include more than 10,000 letters. The most comprehensive edition before this . . . offered just 1.000 or so. The partiality of that selection is revealed by this magisterial new venture, whose two opening volumes brim with a wealth of hitherto unpublished letters. . . . These are richly enthralling letters. The sooner the next 138 or so volumes appear, the better."--Peter Kemp, Culture Supplement to the Sunday Times, 22 July 2007

"These extraordinary, profoundly welcome volumes are the first fruits of an epic undertaking by two heroic American scholars, Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias . . . The two volumes here contain 161 painstakingly edited, spaciously presented letters (52 previously unpublished). The total number of James letters know to be in existence today is 10,423. The editors coolly estimate that "this project will produce at least 140 individual volumes". .

. And these early volumes give a wonderfully pleasurable picture of a writer at the beginning of his journey . . ."--Philip Horne, The Daily Telegraph, 6 January 2007

University of Nebraska Press
Volume 1
9780803225848
£57.00 HB

Volume 2
9780803226074
£60.00 HB

"The Immigrant Threat is an original, highly enjoyable, and truly comparative history crossing centuries, immigrant minorities, and nation states. Lucassen makes great strides toward informing both historians and social scientists working on immigration about the overlooked virtues of each other's work."—Panikos Panayi, Professor of European history, De Montfort University, United Kingdom

Since the 1980s, anti-immigrant discourse has shifted away from the "color" of immigrants to their religion and culture, focusing on newcomers from Muslim countries who are feared as terrorists and the products of tribal societies with values fundamentally opposed to those of secular western Europe.

Leo Lucassen's The Immigrant Threat tackles the question of whether it is reasonable to believe that the integration process of these new immigrants will indeed be fundamentally different in the long run (over multiple generations) from ones experienced by immigrant groups in the past. For comparison, Lucassen focuses on "large and problematic groups" from western Europe's past (the Irish in the United Kingdom,the Poles in Germany, and the Italians in France) and demonstrates a number of structural similarities in the way migrants and their descendants integrated into these nation states. Lucassen emphasizes the changed geographic sources of the "threat" and the tendency to exaggerate the threat of each successive wave of immigrants, in part because the successfully incorporated immigrants have become invisible in national histories. The book also includes a discussion of old and new migrants in the U.S.

LEO LUCASSEN is an associate professor of social and economic history at the University of Amsterdam and the author of numerous books and articles in Dutch, German, and English.