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

Author/Contributor(s):	Handlin, Oscar
Publisher:	Belknap Press
Date:	10/18/1991
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.