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 All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City, Frederick Binders and David Reimers, Columbia University Press, 1995.
Excellent survey detailing the histories of New York's immigrant and migrant groups from the 17th century to the present, including Native-Americans and African-Americans. Makes the case that New York has been "multi-ethnic from the beginning."
The American Irish: A History, Kevin Kenny, Pearson Education Inc., 2000
A survey of Irish American history from the colonial era to the present. Provides an extended analysis of the conditions in Ireland that led to mass migration and examines patterns of settlement, as well as issues of labor, race, gender, politics, and nationalism.
Asian-America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850., Roger Daniels, University of Washington Press, 1989.
A good survey of the Chinese and Japanese experiences in America.
Becoming American: An Ethnic History., Thomas J. Archdeacon, Free Press, 1983.
Covers immigrant history from Jamestown to Vietnamese boat people, including Afrie-Americans. A good survey, with a useful bibliographic essay.
Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of Italian Americans., Richard Gambino,Doubleday, 1974.
Readable interpretation of the history and culture of Italian Americans. One major theme is the adaptation to American life.
Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of American Working Class, 1788-1850., Sean Wilentz, Oxford University Press, 1984.
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure In Turn-Of-The-Century New York., Kathy Peiss,Temple University Press, 1985
Argues that the emergence of young women in the workplace promoted a distinctive feminine, working-class, leisure culture.
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860., Christine Stansell, Knopf, 1986
Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act ,
Andrew Gyory,Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998
Traces the development of anti-Chinese politics during the second half of the nineteenth century. Argues that the Chinese Exclusion Act set a precedent for later laws restricting immigration, legitimized racism as national policy, and fostered an atmosphere of hostility to foreigners that would endure for generations.
Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life., Roger Daniels, Harper Collins, 1990.
Discusses each ethnic group separately, including factors that caused them to emigrate and their experiences in the United States.
The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940, Max Page,Chigago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Explores the dynamics at the heart of urban development in early 20th century New York. Explores the dynamics at the heart of urban development in early 20th century New York. Topics covered include slum clearance, historic preservation, and urban history museums.
Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation., Susan Glenn,Cornell University Press, 1990.
Good analysis of union organizing and work in the garment industry from the 1880s to the First World War.
 Buy This BookEight Hours for What We Will:
Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920., Roy Rosenzweig,Cambridge University Press, 1983. An authoritative study that sees leisure activities as an issue in the struggle between elites and the working classes. Focused on Worcester, Massachusetts.
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to America, Kirby Miller, Oxford University Press, 1985.
A well-written account of politics, society, and culture in Ireland, and emigration to the U.S. from the colonial period to the 1920s. Deals vividly with the famine emigration, but has little to say about the experiences in America.
Empire City: the Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape, David Scobey, Oxford University Press, 1985
Looks at city building in post Civil War New York. Traces the rise of comprehensive urban planning and highlights the role of the real estate industry in shaping the late 19th century urban landscape.
Erin's Daughters in Amemica: Irish Immigrant Women in the 19th Century, Hasia Diner.,Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
Examines women's lives in Ireland, patterns of female migration, life, work, and social problems in the United States.
Buy This BookEthnicity and the American Cemetery,
Richard Meyer, Bowling Green State University Press, 1993.
Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum, Tyler Annbinder
Explores New York's most infamous 19th century neighborhood as an important setting for understanding the immigrant experience, nativism, race relations, working-class politics and popular culture.
Buy This BookFrom Colonia to Community: the History of Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1917-1948,
Virginia Sanchez Korrol
Traces the development of New York's Puerto Rican community during the first decades of the 20th century.
From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration,
Nancy Foner, Yale University Press, 2000
A systematic comparison of significant aspects of contemporary and turn-of-the-last-century immigration to New York City. Explores residnder, education, transnational ties, and prejudice in the lives of turn-of-the-last-century Eastern European Jewish and Italian Immigrants and today's diverse groups of immigrants and migrants.
From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the U.S., 1820-1990,
Donna Gabaccia, Indiana University Press, 1994
Explores how immigrant women living in the United States negotiated relationships with native-born women, immigrant men, and institutions devoted to "Americanization"
From Sicily to Elizabeth Street: Housing and Social Change among Italian Immigrants, 1880-1930.,
Donna Gabaccia, State University of New York Press, 1984.
Useful comparison of housing and everyday life in the old and new world.
Going to America, Going to School: The Jewish Immigrant Public School Encounter in turn-of-the-century New York City.,
Stephan Brumberg, Praeger, 1986.
Describes the role of schools as agents of acculturation and the importance Jews attached to education, at least for men.
The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City, 1880-1915,
Thomas Kessner, Oxford University Press, 1977.
The definitive mobiled census figures to demonstrate that both Jews and Italians experienced a rise in social-economic status.
A History of Housing in New York,
Richard Plunz, Columbia University Press, 1990.
History of a Jewish Burial Society: An examination Secularization,
Marilyn Schneider, Edward Mellen Press, 1991
Hungering for America: Itali Jewish Food Ways in the Age of Migration,
Hasia Diner, Harvard University Press, 2001
A history of how ethnic eating habits both assimilated to and were diffused through American culture.
The Immigrant Church: New York's Irish and German Catholics
Jay Dolan, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.
A study of ethnic religious life and conflict.
Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower East Side, 1890-1925,
Elizabeth Ewen, Monthly Review Press, 1985.
Examines how the expegration to the United States shaped the lives of Italian and East European Jewish mothers and daughters at the turn of the last century. Emphasizes changing gender roles and family relations.
Buy This BookInventing the American Way of Death, 1830 - 1920,
Farrell, James., Temple University Press, 1980.
Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850.,
Elizabeth Blackmar, Cornell University Press, 1989.
Examines the social forces behind the formation of the city's housing market and its relation to the development of a capitalist economy.
Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939, Daniel Soyer,Harvard University Press, 1997
Little Germany: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in New York City, 1845-1880, University of Illinois Press, 1990.
Covers the German migration, settlement and community building efforts on New York's "Lower East Side."
Mourning in Cross-Cultural Perspective,
Paul C. Rosenblatt, HRAF Press, 1976. Natives and Strangers: Ethnic Groups and the Building of America, Leonard Dinnerstein et. al., Oxford University Press, 1979.
A textbook survey emphasizing immigrant contributions to economic development.
Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews and Italians of New York City, 1929-1941, Ronald Bayor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
Explores New York's most infamous 19th century neighborhood as an important derstanding the immigrant experience, nativism, race relations, working-class politics and popular culture.
The New Chinatown, Peter Kwong, Hill and Wang, 1987.
Examines the formation of contemporary Chinatowns on the United States, with special attention ty. Details the social, cultural, economic, and political dimensions of these ethnic enclaves.
New Immigrants in New York, Nancy Foner (Editor), Columbia University Press, 2001
A series of essays examining the experiences of new immigrant groups as they adapt to live in New York City wtention given to issues of labor, politics, patterns of settlement, and culture.
The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and the Redevelopment of the Inner City, Joel Schwartz, Ohio State University Press, 1993
A major reinterpretation of postwar urban renewal in New York City examining Robert Moses' role in shaping the city and demonstra' crusade was sustained by his alliance with liberal city groups.
The New York Irish , Ronald H. Bayor and Timothy J. Meagher (Editors), Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
A series of essays examining various facets of the Irish immigrant exp York City from the 18th through the 20th centuries.
The Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914, Moses Rischin,Harvard University Press, 1962.
The definitive study of Jewish immigration to America.
Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy, David Quigley, Hill and Wang, 2004
Examines Reconstruction-era politics in New York, placing the city at the heart of national developments that remade American democracy during the the nineteenth century.
Sephardim in 20th Century America: In Search of Unity, Joseph Papo, Pele Yoetz, 1987
Focuses on immigrants the Mediterranean and the Middle East, their community building efforts, and their coshkenazim.
Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace", Alan Kraut ,Basic Books, 1994.
Synthesizes immigration history with the history of medicine.
Still the Golden Door: The Third World comes to America,
David Reimers, Columbia University Press, 1985
Surveys post World War II laws and immigration, especially from Asia and Latin America.
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans,
Ronald Takaki, Little Brown, 1989
Written for a general audience. Frequently uses fiction as a historical source. Emphasizes immigrants as active players, not passive victims. Stresses the discrimination they faced.
Strangers in the Land: American Nativism, 1860-1925, John Higham,Atheneum, 1955.
Still the standard account of the ebbs and flows of anti-immigrant sentiment.
Tales of Five Points: Working-Class Life in Nineteenth-Century New York , Rebecca Yamin (Editor), John Milner Associates, 2000
Everything there is to know about the Five Points archaeological excavation.
"Tradtional Institutions Transplanted: The Hevra Kadisha in Europe and in America" in Moses Rischin, ed., The Jews of North America, Arthur Goren, Wayne State University Press, 1987.
The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America, John Bodnar, University of Indiana Press, 1985.
Chapters on European background and emigration patterns; family networks; work; religion; and mobility. Emphasizes the complexity of "assimilation," the immigrants' adjustment to capitalism, and conflicts within and among ethnic groups.
Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920, Paul Boyer, Harvard University Press, 1978
Covers reform and charitable organizations in the Gilded Age; Progressive campaigns against the saloon and the brothel; and attempts to create a better urban environment through housing, parks, and playgrounds.
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Laws and Issues: a Documentary History, Michael LeMay and Elliott Robert Barkan, Greenwood Press, 1999
Contains U.S. immigration and naturalization laws from the colonial era to the present, as well as pertinent speeches, tracts, and various other historical documents that illuminate key themes in the history of immigration among which nativism features most prominently.
Workers in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity, and Youth in Antebellum New York City , Richard B. Stott, Cornell University Press, 1990
An examination of the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration on working-class formation in early 19th century New York City.
Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II, Joshua Freeman, The New Press, 2000.
Looks at how New York's working men and women helped create a social democracy that stretched the New Deal beyond its stalled lengths, creating a more complete welfare state, decent affordable housing, universal health care, secure and well-paid jobs with retirement pensions, only to see many of these accomplishments come crashing down in the end.
A World of our Fathers, Irving Howe, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
A rich evocation of life on New York's Lower East Side from 1880 to 1920.
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