The making of an American pluralism
Subtitle: Buffalo, New York, 1825-60
By: David A. Gerber.
Series: Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial series
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 531
Subjects: Pluralism (Social sciences) -- New York (State) -- Buffalo; Minorities -- New York (State) -- Buffalo -- History -- 19th century; Ethnicity -- New York (State) -- Buffalo -- History -- 19th century; Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: “A place of immense resort” : from frontier village to continental entrepôt -- Expansion, speculation, and collapse, 1825-38 -- Commerce and class formation -- Culture, ethos, and ideology in class formation -- Clerks, shopkeepers, and artisans : Americans, Canadians, and Britons -- Introduction : mass immigration, ethnicity, and group formation -- Poverty, Catholicism and solidarity : the formation of Irish ethnicity -- Buffalo’s Germans : foundations in diversity -- Buffalo’s Germans : leadership, ideology, and the struggle for unity -- Class and ethnicity in the rise of labor -- The Catholic Church and the emergence of a new interconfessional order -- Introduction : political and civic integration : the formative decade, 1843-53 -- From ethnic polarization to social and political realignment : 1854-60.