ISBN:
0231548583
,
9780231548588
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 314 pages)
,
illustrations, map
Edition:
Revised edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Binder, Frederick M All the nations under heaven
DDC:
305.8009747
Keywords:
Ethnology
;
Ethnology
;
Race relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
;
Ethnic relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
;
New York (N.Y.) Race relations
;
New York (N.Y.) Ethnic relations
;
New York (State) ; New York
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A seaport in the Atlantic world, 1624-1820 -- Becoming a city of the world, 1820-1860 -- Progress and poverty, 1861-1900 -- Slums, sweatshops, and reform, 1880-1917 -- New times and new neighborhoods, 1917-1928 -- Times of trial, 1929-1945 -- City of hope, city of fear, 1945-1997 -- Immigrants in a city reborn, 1980-present.
Abstract:
First published in 1996, All the Nations Under Heaven has earned praise and a wide readership for its unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York City. This updated edition of a classic text brings the story of the immigrant experience in New York City up to the present with vital new material on the city’s revival as a global metropolis with deeply rooted racial and economic inequalities. All the Nations Under Heaven explores New York City’s history through the stories of people who moved there from countless places of origin and indelibly marked its hybrid popular culture, its contentious ethnic politics, and its relentlessly dynamic economy. From Dutch settlement to the extraordinary diversity of today’s immigrants, the book chronicles successive waves of Irish, German, Jewish, and Italian immigrants and African American and Puerto Rican migrants, showing how immigration changes immigrants and immigrants change the city. In a compelling narrative synthesis, All the Nations Under Heaven considers the ongoing tensions between inclusion and exclusion, the pursuit of justice and the reality of inequality, and the evolving significance of race and ethnicity. In an era when immigration, inequality, and globalization are bitterly debated, this revised edition is a timely portrait of New York City through the lenses of migration and immigration
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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