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

Handlin, Oscar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674079868 ISBN 13: 9780674079861

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 1991

Synopsis

As fresh in 1991 as when it 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: peasants 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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book explores a wide range of subjects: peasant society and the causes of European migration, population growth and industrial development, the ideology of progress and Catholic thought, and urban politics and the dynamics of prejudice.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0674079868
• ISBN 13: 9780674079861
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 400