Poverty, ethnicity, and the American city, 1840-1925 : changing conceptions of the slum and the ghetto / David Ward.

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Ward, David, 1938-

Title & Author:

Poverty, ethnicity, and the American city, 1840-1925 : changing conceptions of the slum and the ghetto / David Ward.

Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Description:

xiv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 13

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-257) and index.
Preface; 1. The slum, the ghetto and the inner city; Part I. The Relationships Formulated: 2. The slums discovered: 1840-1875; 3. The slums defined: 1875-1900; 4. From slum to ghetto: 1900-1925; 5. Ethnicity and assimilation; 6. Ethnicity and industrialisation; Notes; Index.

Summary:

The debate about the relationships among poverty, minorities and the inner city is rooted in evaluations of policies initiated decades ago but the issues of this debate have a much longer ancestry. In many respects the underlying arguments of this debate were formulated during the second quarter of the nineteenth century when the first wave of mass immigration from Europe exacerbated anxieties about the social order of the rapidly growing seaports of the north-eastern United States. This book examines, from an explicitly geographic perspective, the relationships between migrants and the inner city during the period of mass immigration to the United States from about 1840 until the introduction of immigration restriction in 1923-4. During this period, interpretations of poverty became part of a set of assumptions about the immigrant slums and the presumed deviance of their residents. At different times these assumptions implied varying degrees of environmental or cultural determinism, as well as complex reciprocal interaction between environment and culture.

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ISBN:

0521257832
9780521257831
0521277116 (pbk.)
9780521277112 (pbk.)

Subject:

Urban poor United States History 19th century.
Immigrants United States History 19th century.
Urban minorities United States History 19th century.
Slums United States History 19th century.
Inner cities United States History 19th century.
Minorities United States History 19th century.
Social Conditions history
Poverty Areas history
Emigration and Immigration history
Minority Groups history
Pauvres en milieu urbain États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Immigrants États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Minorités États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Taudis États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Quartiers défavorisés États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Minorités en milieu urbain États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Minorities
Immigrants
Inner cities
Slums
Social conditions
Urban minorities
Urban poor
Slum
Getto
Stadt
Armoede.
Etnische minderheden.
Achterbuurten.
Slums United States History.
Urban poor United States History.
Villes États-Unis 19e siècle.
Pauvres en milieu urbain États-Unis 19e siècle.
Immigrés États-Unis 19e siècle.
Minorités États-Unis 19e siècle.
Logement insalubre États-Unis 19e siècle.
United States Social conditions 1865-1918.
États-Unis Conditions sociales 1865-1918.
United States
USA
États-Unis Conditions sociales 1918-1932.
États-Unis Conditions sociales Jusqu'à 1865.
United States Urban regions Inner areas Ethnic minorities Social conditions, 1840-1925

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History

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Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 13.

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Call No.: ID:89-B9657
Status: Available

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