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Noah Webster and the Invention of Immigration

Neil Larry Shumsky
Publisher: Journals Gateway
The New England Quarterly (2008) 81 (1): 126–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq.2008.81.1.126
Published: 01 March 2008
Abstract
Like all lexicographers, Noah Webster built his dictionaries on the works of others. But in the case of the verb to immigrate and its derivatives, he coined a new definition, one that has had a profound impact on how Americans conceive of the phenomenon of immigration.
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