Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880: A Study in Acculturation, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface by the Author

Handlin, Oscar

ISBN 10: 0674079868 / ISBN 13: 9780674079861

Edité par Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 1991

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"Revised and enlarged edition".

N° de réf. du vendeur 4288

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880: A Study in Acculturation, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface by the Author
• Éditeur: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Date de parution: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674079868
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674079861
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 4ème Édition
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

As fresh today as when it was first published a half-century ago, Boston's Immigrants illuminates the history of a particular city and an important phase of the American experience. Focusing on the life of people from the perspective of the social historian, the book explores a wide range of subjects: peasant society and the cause of European migration, population growth and industrial development, the ideology of progress and Catholic thought, and urban politics and the dynamic of prejudice. A generation of students and scholars has profited from its insights, and general readers have enjoyed its lively style. A new Preface by the author reflects upon the book's intellectual origins.

À propos de l?auteur

Oscar Handlin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, was Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He was the editor of This Was America.