Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730

by Joyce D. Goodfriend

Book Overview

From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of Dutch, English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Jewish immigrants, as well as a large African-American population. Joyce Goodfriend paints a vivid portrait of this society, exploring the meaning of ethnicity in early America and showing how colonial settlers of varying backgrounds worked out a basis for coexistence. She...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691047944
• ISBN13: 9780691047942
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.8" x 10.0"