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Loading... Boston's Immigrants: 1840-1925by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The photographs are stunning, but I found the text to be poorly written, occasionally simplistic and (not so) subtly racist. I also found it telling (in a book that gives significant and well-deserved attention to Italian immigrants) that there is a glaring absence of any mention whatsoever of Sacco and Vanzetti, probably the two most famous Italian immigrants to Boston in the time period the book covers, if not ever. no reviews | add a review
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Boston is a city rich in the history of residents from all walks of life, every country and every ethnicity imaginable. From 1840 to 1925, Boston's diversity created a city with a thriving nexus of people who wove together a community that reflected their own unique heritage. In this lavishly illustrated book with over 200 thought-provoking and evocative photographs, Anthony Mitchell Sammarco and Michael Price have created an important book chronicling the determination, strength, and often manifold successes of immigrants who arrived in Boston.From the mid-nineteenth century when Boston's burgeoning population included one out of every three as being foreign born, the immigrants' arrival at the East Boston docks increased greatly between 1840 and 1925, where they were to pass into the New World, and a new life. In chapters that deal with the immigrants before their arrival, their first perceptions, to where they went, worked, and played, this book outlines the ancestors of many present-day Bostonians in the evolving process of Americanization. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)974.461History and Geography North America Northeastern U.S. Massachusetts Suffolk County BostonLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |