"A New-York Historical Society book." "Essays ... first presented as papers at a conference held by the New-York Historical Society to celebrate Lady Liberty's Centennial"--Introd. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The fall of the German-American community : Buffalo 1914 to 1919 / Andrew P. Yox -- European immigrant/ethnic theater in Gilded Age New York : reflections and projections of mentalities / James H. Dormon -- The post-World War II city : introduction / Randall M. Miller -- Recent Third World immigration to New York City, 1945 to 1986 : an overview / David M. Reimers -- The migration division of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1948 to 1969 / Michael Lapp -- Portals of portals : speaking of the United States "as though it were New York"--and vice versa / Elliott R. Barkan. The old immigration : introduction / William Pencak -- Labor's decline within New York City's Democratic party from 1844 to 1884 / Anthony Gronowicz -- Bishop John Timon, Archbishop John Hughes, and Irish colonization : a clash of Episcopal views on the future of the Irish and the Catholic Church in America / Leonard R. Riforgiato -- From the barricades of Paris to the sidewalks of New York : German artisans and the European roots of American labor radicalism / Stanley Nadel -- Early twentieth-century immigration : introduction / Selma Berrol -- Mobilization and conflict : the background and social history of the Norwegian colony in Brooklyn to 1910 / David C. Mauk -- '... the adoption of the tactics of the enemy' : the care of Italian immigrant youth in the Archdiocese of New York during the Progressive era / Mary Elizabeth Brown.
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