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The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism
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ISBN: 0674029844 9780674029842 9780674909502 067490950X Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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Progressivism, James Connolly shows us, was a language and style of political action available to a wide range of individuals and groups. A diverse array of political and civic figures used it to present themselves as leaders of a communal response to the growing power of illicit interests and to the problems of urban-industrial life. As structural reforms weakened a ward-based party system that helped mute ethnic conflict, this new formula for political mobilization grew more powerful. Its most effective variation in Boston was an "ethnic progressivism" that depicted the city's public life as a clash between its immigrant majority--"the people"--and a wealthy Brahmin elite--"the interests." As this portrayal took hold, Bostonians came to view their city as a community permanently beset by ethnic strife. In showing that the several reform visions that arose in Boston included not only the progressivism of the city's business leaders but also a series of ethnic progressivisms, Connolly offers a new approach to urban public life in the early twentieth century. He rejects the assumption that ethnic politics was machine politics and employs both institutional and rhetorical analysis to reconstruct the inner workings of neighborhood public life and the social narratives that bound the city together. The result is a deeply textured picture that differs sharply from the traditional view of machine-reform conflict.


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The new Bostonians : how immigrants have transformed the metro area since the 1960s / |c
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ISBN: 1613763557 9781613763551 9781625341471 9781625341464 1625341466 Year: 2015 Publisher: Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press,


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City of neighborhoods
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ISBN: 0299307131 9780299307134 9780299307103 0299307107 Year: 2016 Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin

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East Boston has long been known as an Italian neighborhood and Southie as an Irish one, while nearby North Quincy has seen in recent decades an influx of Chinese Americans and immigrants. Such urban spaces in America can become intimately intertwined with ethnic identities (Little Italy, Greektown, Chinatown, Little Havana). Yet local residents often readily acknowledge an underlying diversity—both historically and as a result of more recent changes—that complicates such stereotypes. Digging into the ever-shifting terrain of American ethnicity and urban spaces, Anthony Bak Buccitelli investigates folk practices, social memory, and local histories in three Boston-area neighborhoods. He looks at the ways locals represent their neighborhoods and themselves via events, symbols, stories, and landmarks, from the shamrock to the Chinese flag, whether the St. Patrick's Day parade in Southie or the Columbus Day parade in East Boston, from urban graffiti and websites to the Dorchester Heights Monument. City of Neighborhoods exposes the processes of selection and emphasis that produce, sustain, challenge, and change understandings of urban spaces as ethnic places.

Khmer American : identity and moral education in a diasporic community
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ISBN: 0585283540 0520920864 9780520920866 9780585283548 0520213483 0520213491 9780520213487 9780520213494 Year: 1999 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] University of California Press

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In the early 1980s, tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees fled their war-torn country to take up residence in the United States, where they quickly became one of the most troubled and least studied immigrant groups. This book is the story of that passage, and of the efforts of Khmer Americans to recreate the fabric of culture and identity in the aftermath of the Khmer holocaust.Based on long-term research among Cambodians residing in metropolitan Boston, this rich ethnography provides a vivid portrait of the challenges facing Khmer American culture as seen from the perspective of elders attempting to preserve Khmer Buddhism in a deeply unfamiliar world. The study highlights the tensions and ambivalences of Khmer socialization, with particular emphasis on Khmer conceptions of personhood, morality, and sexuality. Nancy J. Smith-Hefner considers how this cultural heritage influences the performance of Khmer children in American schools and, ultimately, determines Khmer engagement with American culture.

The Boston Renaissance : Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis
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ISBN: 1610440714 9781610440714 9780871541253 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York : Baltimore, Md. : Russell Sage Foundation, Project MUSE,


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The Bostonians
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ISBN: 9781107003989 1107003989 9780511782480 0511782489 1108696406 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. The Bostonians is an extraordinary political and psychological drama narrating the struggle between Northern feminist Olive Chancellor and her cousin, former slaveholder and radical conservative Basil Ransom, for 'possession' of the beautiful, talented Verena Tarrant. The issues raised of the relations between the sexes, between North and South and between differing visions of 'progress' in America are as timely - and contentious - as when the novel first appeared. This fully annotated scholarly edition of one of James's most distinctive and important works features a detailed contextual introduction, full textual history and helpful explanatory annotation. It will be of interest to researchers, scholars and advanced students of Henry James, and of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American fiction and literature.

Franklin's father Josiah : life of a colonial Boston Tallow Chandler 1657-1745
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ISBN: 0871699036 Year: 2000 Publisher: London ; New York, NY ; Rheine : American Philosophical Society,

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The Hub's metropolis : greater Boston's development from railroad suburbs to smart growth.
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ISBN: 1299443281 0262314061 9780262314060 9780262314053 0262314053 0262018756 026231407X 9781299443280 9780262018753 9780262545860 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) MIT press

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The evolution of the Boston metropolitan area, from country villages and streetcar suburbs to exurban sprawl and "smart growth.".


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Eden on the Charles
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ISBN: 0674058550 9780674058552 9780674048416 0674048415 9780674416833 067441683X Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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In Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston, Michael Rawson examines how the city's relationship with its natural surroundings informed its early growth and development. His compelling, well-researched narrative touches on several milestones on Boston's road to modernity, including the Common's conversion from a place of labor to a place of leisure, the emergence of pastoral suburbs as a respite from an increasingly urbanized landscape, and the long fight over a proposed municipal water system to bring fresh water to those who needed it most.Perhaps the book's most important lesson comes from a frustrated mariner who, upset over the maltreatment of the harbor, laments that "the past seems to be forgotten, the present only is regarded as of importance, and a veil is drawn over the future." Eden on the Charles is a valiant effort to combat such shortsightedness, reminding us that the key to building a successful community lies in respecting the natural resources that provide for it and in understanding our responsibility to our fellow citizens.

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