By Andrew Markus
A meticulously researched comparative study of the nature and development of popular attitudes to non-European immigration in two ninteenth century communities, which analyses the impact of purgeoning racism over five decades. Drawing upon archives and the popular pressin California and Australia, Andrew Markus reveals the social and economic forces behind the legislative process which reslulted in the White Austalia policy and a range of discrimnatory Ameriacan statutes.