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

Binder, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 023107879X ISBN 13: 9780231078795

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1996

Synopsis

/I> 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. 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.

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About the Author

Frederick Binder was a professor Emeritus of history at The City University of New York. David Reimers is professor emeritus in history at NYU. He is the co-author of Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration (Columbia University Press, 2009) and Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration (Columbia University Press, 1999). Robert Snyder is associate professor in the department of American Studies at Rutgers-Newark. He is the author of Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City (Cornell University Press, 2014) and Transit Talk: New York's Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories (Rutgers University Press, 1998). In addition to scholarly journals, his work has also been published in The Nation, the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, and other general-interest publications.

From the Back Cover

All the Nations Under Heaven is primarily a narrative and analytical history of ethnic and racial New York, from its beginnings as a Dutch trading outpost until the present, when new Third World migration has made the city's population global in character. The book centers on the development of New York's pluralism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 023107879X
• ISBN 13: 9780231078795
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368