Boston’s Immigrants, 1790–1880: A Study in Acculturation, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface by the Author

As fresh in 1991 as when it 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: peasants 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.

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• And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society 1920 to the 1990s
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• A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
• Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South
• The Boston Irish: A Political History
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• The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
• A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900