Description
As fresh in 1991 as when it first published a half-century ago, Boston’s Immigrants illuminates the history of a particular city and the most important phase of the American enjoy. That specialize in the life of folks from the standpoint of the social historian, the book explores quite a lot of subjects: peasants society and the reason for 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 scholars and scholars has profited from its insights, and general readers have enjoyed its energetic style. A new preface by the creator reflects upon the book’s intellectual origins.