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All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City (Columbia History of Urban Life) - Softcover

Binder, Frederick

 
9780231078795: All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City (Columbia History of Urban Life)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 023107879X ISBN 13: 9780231078795
Verlag: Columbia University Press, 1996

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/I> 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. In this timely, provocative book, Binder and Reimers offer insight into the cultural mosaic of New York at the turn of the millennium, where despite a civic pride that emphasizes the goals of diversity and tolerance, racial and ethnic conflict continue to shatter visions of peaceful coexistence.

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Frederick M. Binder is Professor of History at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. He is coeditor with David Reimers of "The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History," and author of "The Age of the Common School, 1830-1865" and "The Color Problem in Early National America as Views by John Adams, Jefferson, and Jackson."

David M. Reimers is Professor of History at New York University. His books include "Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America" (Columbia) and, with Leonard Dinnerstein and Roger Nichols, "Natives and Strangers: Immigrants, Blacks, and Indians."

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All the Nations Under Heaven is primarily a narrative and analytical history of ethnic and racial New York, from its beginnings as a Dutch trading outpost until the present, when new Third World migration has made the city's population global in character. The book centers on the development of New York's pluralism.

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Verlag
Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
023107879X
ISBN 13 
9780231078795
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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