Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880(English, Paperback, Handlin Oscar)

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Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880(English, Paperback, Handlin Oscar) is written by Handlin Oscar and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674079868 (ISBN 10) and 9780674079861 (ISBN 13).

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.