All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City (Columbia History of Urban Life)

by Frederick M Binder (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $48.06

  Traces the shifting tides of New York's ethnic past, from its beginnings as a Dutch trading outpost onwards. This work explores the processes of cultural adaptation to life in New York, giving an account of immigrants new and old, and of the streets and neighborhoods they claimed and transformed.