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

by Oscar Handlin

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674079868
• ISBN13: 9780674079861
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"

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