All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City - Rilegato

Binder, Frederick M.; Reimers, David M.

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ISBN 10: 0231078781 ISBN 13: 9780231078788

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 1995

Riassunto

In All the Nations Under Heaven, Frederick Binder and David Reimers trace the shifting tides of New York's ethnic past, from its beginnings as a Dutch trading outpost to the present age where Third World immigration has given the population a truly global character. All the Nations Under Heaven explores the processes of cultural adaptation to life in New York, giving a lively account of immigrants new and old, and of the streets and neighborhoods they claimed and transformed.
All the Nations Under Heaven provides a comprehensive look at the unique cultural identities that have wrought changes on the city over nearly four centuries since Europeans first landed on the Atlantic shore. While detailing the various efforts to retain a cultural heritage, the book also looks at how ethnic and racial groups have interacted - and clashed - over the years.
From the influx of Irish and Germans in the nineteenth century to the recent arrival of Caribbean and Asian ethnic groups in large numbers, All the Nations Under Heaven explores the social, cultural, political, and economic lives of immigrants as they sought to form their own communities and struggled to define their identities within the growing heterogeneity of New York.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Frederick M. Binder is Professor of History at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York.

Product Description:

Book by Binder Frederick Reimers David

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0231078781
• ISBN 13: 9780231078788
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 353