Author: Oscar Handlin
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: enlarged, acculturation, study, immigrants, boston
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1991-10-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0674079868
ISBN-13: 9780674079861

As fresh in 1991 as when it first published a half-century ago, Boston’s Immigrants illuminates the history of a particular city and an important phase of the American experience. Focusing on the life of people from the perspective of the social historian, the book explores a wide range of subjects: peasants society and the cause of European migration, population growth and industrial development, the ideology of progress and Catholic thought, and urban politics and the dynamic of prejudice. A generation of students and scholars has profited from its insights, and general readers have

Author: Oscar Handlin
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: american, people, made, migrations, epic, story, uprooted
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-01-23
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0812217888
ISBN-13: 9780812217889

Awarded the 1952 Pulitzer Prize in history, The Uprooted chronicles the common experiences of the millions of European immigrants who came to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—their fears, their hopes, their expectations. The New Yorker called it "strong stuff, handled in a masterly and quite moving way," while the New York Times suggested that "The Uprooted is history with a difference—the difference being its concerns with hearts and souls no less than an event."The book inspired a generation of research in the history of American immigration, but because it em

Author: Oscar Handlin
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: america, distortion
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1560002379
ISBN-13: 9781560002376

Authors:David P. Thelen, Oscar Handlin,
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: spirit, insurgent, follette
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1986-05-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0299106446
ISBN-13: 9780299106447

Authors:Joan Hoff Wilson, Oscar Handlin,
Publisher: Waveland Press
Keywords: progressive, forgotten, hoover, herbert
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 1992-12
List price: $18.50
ISBN-10: 0881337056
ISBN-13: 9780881337051

This interesting and insightful book examines the life of one of America’s least favored presidents with a sensitive and objective eye. Herbert Hoover’s career followed a pattern familiar in the history of the United States: humble beginnings surmounted by hard work and tremendous ambition, wealth, public service and, eventually, the presidency. From his Quaker youth he acquired morals and values that he would preserve throughout his entire life. These values ultimately created an unbridgeable gulf between him and U.S. citizens as he confronted the Great Depression soon afte

Authors:Stephan Thernstrom, Ann Orlov, Oscar Handlin,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: groups, ethnic, american, encyclopedia, harvard
Number of Pages: 1104
Published: 1980-10-10
List price: $182.00
ISBN-10: 0674375122
ISBN-13: 9780674375123

From Acadians to Zoroastrians-Asians, American Indians, East Indians, West Indians, Europeans, Latin Americans, Afro-Americans, and Mexican Americans--the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups provides the first comprehensive and systematic review of the many peoples of this country. It should excite all Americans about their nation. Informative and entertaining, this volume is an indispensable reference work for home, library and office. It establishes a foundation for the burgeoning field of ethnic studies; it will satisfy and stimulate the popular interest in ancestry and heri

Authors:Bernard Bailyn, Donald Fleming, Oscar Handlin, Stepha
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: past, harvard, glimpses
Number of Pages: 161
Published: 1986-02-28
List price: $40.50
ISBN-10: 0674354435
ISBN-13: 9780674354432

This happy combination of literary essay and exceptionally well-written history, providing insights into a past still important in the twentieth century, will quickly take an honored place on the shelves of Harvardiana. Bernard Bailyn writes on the origins of Harvard and the foundations of Harvard’s persistent character, structure, and style of governance, and contributes another chapter on the unhappy ending to the administration of the beloved President Kirkland (x8xo-i8z8), who presided over but could not control a period of profound change. Oscar Handlin describes the shifting r