Research Catalog

Title

All the nations under heaven : an ethnic and racial history of New York City / Frederick M. Binder, David M. Reimers.

Author

Binder, Frederick M.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Reimers, David M.

Description

xii, 353 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• 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.

Series Statement

Columbia history of urban life

Uniform Title

Columbia history of urban life.

Subjects

• New York (N.Y.) > Race relations
• New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations
• Ethnology > New York (State) > New York

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-318) and index.

Contents

1. Multiethnic from the Beginning: New York City, the Colonial and Revolutionary Years -- 2. Dynamic Growth and Diversity: The City and its People, 1789-1880 -- 3. Diversity in Action: Irish and German Immigrants in a Growing City, 1789-1880 -- 4. Old and New Immigrants in Greater New York City, 1880 to World War I -- 5. Jews and Italians in Greater New York City, 1880 to World War I -- 6. Ethnic New Yorkers from the Great War to the Great Depression -- 7. A Time of Trial: New Yorkers During the Great Depression and World War II -- 8. A Better Time: New York City, 1945-1970 -- 9. Truly a Global City: New York, 1970 to the Present.

ISBN

• 0231078781 (alk. paper)
• 023107879X (pbk.)

LCCN

94045085

OCLC

• 31607815
• ocm31607815

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries