All the Nations Under Heaven - An Ethnic & Racial History of New York City (Paper)

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-231-07879-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 353 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: Columbia History of Urban Life

In certain neighborhoods of New York City, an immigrant may live out his or her entire life without even becoming fluent in English. From the Russians of Brooklyn's Brighton Beach to the Dominicans of Manhattan's Washington Heights, New York is arguably the most ethnically diverse city in the world. Yet no wide-ranging ethnic history of the city has ever been attempted.

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 grwonig heterogeneity of New York. In this timely, provocative book, Binder and Reimers offer insight into the cultural mosaic of New York at the turn of the millennium, where despite a civic pride that emphasizes the goals of diversity and tolerance, racial and ethnic conflict continue to shatter visions of peaceful coexistence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Binder, Frederick

Snyder, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix1. Multiethnic from the Beginning: New York City,the Colonial and Revolutionary Years 12. Dynamic Growth and Diversity: The City and its People,1789-1880 333. Diversity in Action: Irish and German Immigrants in aGrowing City, 1789-1880 594. Old and New Immigrants in Greater New York City,1880 to World War I 935. Jews and Italians in Greater New York City,1880 to World War I 114 6. Ethnic New Yorkers from the Great War to the GreatDepression 1497. A Time of Trial: New Yorkers During the Great Depression and World War II 1768. A Better Time: New York City, 1945-1970 1979. Truly a Global City: New York, 1970 to the Present 225Afterword 259Notes 263Selected Reading 315Index 319

Über Autor(innen)

Frederick M. Binder is Professor of History at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. He is coeditor with David Reimers of "The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History," and author of "The Age of the Common School, 1830-1865" and "The Color Problem in Early National America as Views by John Adams, Jefferson, and Jackson."

David M. Reimers is Professor of History at New York University. His books include "Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America" (Columbia) and, with Leonard Dinnerstein and Roger Nichols, "Natives and Strangers: Immigrants, Blacks, and Indians."