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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 argues that, contrary to the prevalent notion of

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Author

Joyce D. Goodfriend

Publisher

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691047942

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25