The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City

by James R. Barrett

Book Overview

In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and workplaces of the American city. This process of "Americanization from the bottom up" was deeply shaped, Barrett argues, by the Irish. From Lower Manhattan to the South Side of Chicago to Boston's North End, newer waves of immigrants and African Americans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143122800
• ISBN13: 9780143122807
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher