Melting Pot and the Altar : Marital Assimilation in Early Twentieth-Century Wisconsin.
Title:
Melting Pot and the Altar : Marital Assimilation in Early Twentieth-Century Wisconsin.
Author:
Bernard, Richard M.
ISBN:
9780816661534
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (191 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Study of Marital Assimilation -- Objectives -- Theory and Methods -- Chapter 1: Wisconsin's Immigrants -- Immigration -- Settlement Patterns -- Demographic Characteristics -- Social Characteristics -- Chapter 2: Intermarriage Rates -- Chapter 3: Individual Factors -- Chapter 4: Group Factors -- Marriage Markets -- Demographic Factors -- Socioeconomic Factors and the Group Characteristics Model -- The Composite Characteristics Model -- Chapter 5: The Melting Pot and the Altar: Conclusions -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- W.
Abstract:
Recent studies of assimilation in nineteenth-century America have focused on the ways in which immigrant groups maintained separate identities rather than on their absorption in American society. In The Melting Pot and the Altar Richard M. Bernard puts to.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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