Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880

A Study in Acculturation, Enlarged Edition

Oscar Handlin

  • Winner of the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association

Preface to the 1991 edition

Foreword

1. Social Boston, 1790-1845

2. The Process of Arrival, 1790-1865

3. The Economic Adjustment

4. The Physical Adjustment

5. Conflict of Ideas

6. The Development of Group Consciousness

7. Group Conflict

8. An Appearance of Stability

Appendix

Note on the Statistics of Immigration into Boston

Note to Table 8

Tables

Abbreviations and Note on Source

Notes

Index

  • Cover: Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880

Oscar Handlin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, is Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University. He is the editor of This Was America.