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The rise and fall of Protestant Brooklyn : an American story / Stuart M. Blumin and Glenn C. Altschuler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blumin, Stuart M., author.
- Altschuler, Glenn C., author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Protestantism--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- Protestantism.
- Protestantism--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--History--19th century.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.) : 53 b&w halftones, 4 maps
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Three Hills, 2022.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Stuart M. Blumin and Glenn C. Altschuler tell the story of nineteenth-century Brooklyn's domination by upper- and middle-class Protestants with roots in Puritan New England. This lively history describes the unraveling of the control they wielded as more ethnically diverse groups moved into the 'City of Churches' during the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Prologue: America's Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Village
- The City of Brooklyn
- On the waterfront
- Toward a New Brooklyn
- Newcomers
- Transformation
- Acceptance, resistance, flight
- Epilogue: Brooklyn's America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 23, 2023).
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- ISBN:
- 9781501765520
- 1501765523
- 9781501765537
- 1501765531
- OCLC:
- 1281791907
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