The author documents his thesis that American urban history begins with the arrival of large numbers of Irish Catholic immigrants in the 1820s. He argues that Irish Americans' material success, which took them as a group from the ghetto to middle-class, has caused a fading of Irish identity.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 10/01/1998
ISBN: 9780815605218
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.97w x 0.67d