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All the Nations Under Heaven is an unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York City. This updated edition of a classic text brings the story of the immigrant experience up to the present with vital new material on the city's revival with deeply rooted racial and economic inequalities.
List of contents
Preface
1. A Seaport in the Atlantic World: 1624–1820
2. Becoming a City of the World: 1820–1860
3. Progress and Poverty: 1861–1900
4. Slums, Sweatshops, and Reform: 1880–1917
5. New Times and New Neighborhoods: 1917–1928
6. Times of Trial: 1929–1945
7. City of Hope, City of Fear: 1945–1997
8. Immigrants in a City Reborn: 1980–present
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the author
Frederick M. Binder (1931–2016) was professor of history at the City University of New York. His works include The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History (1988).
David M. Reimers is professor emeritus of history at New York University. His Columbia University Press books include Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration (1999) and Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration (fifth edition, 2009).
Robert W. Snyder is professor of journalism and American studies at Rutgers University–Newark. His books include Transit Talk: New York’s Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories (1998) and Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City (2014).
Summary
All the Nations Under Heaven is an unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York City. This updated edition of a classic text brings the story of the immigrant experience up to the present with vital new material on the city’s revival with deeply rooted racial and economic inequalities.
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All the Nations Under Heaven reveals the powerful social, political, economic, and religious influence of immigrants on New York City since the colonial era. Expanding on current scholarship, the authors make immigration history and the broader history of New York City accessible for both students and scholars.
