Before the Melting Pot

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Before the Melting Pot is written by Joyce D. Goodfriend and published by Princeton University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0691222983 (ISBN 10) and 9780691222981 (ISBN 13).

From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of Dutch, English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Jewish immigrants, as well as a large African-American population. Joyce Goodfriend paints a vivid portrait of this society, exploring the meaning of ethnicity in early America and showing how colonial settlers of varying backgrounds worked out a basis for coexistence. She argues that, contrary to the prevalent notion of rapid Anglicization, ethnicity proved an enduring force in this small urban society well into the eighteenth century.