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The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn - An American Story (Hardcover)
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The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn - An American Story (Hardcover)
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In The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn, 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. Before it
became a prime American example of urban ethnic diversity, Brooklyn
was a lovely and salubrious "town across the river" from Manhattan,
celebrated for its churches and upright suburban living. But
challenges to this way of life issued from the sheer growth of the
city, from new secular institutions-department stores, theaters,
professional baseball-and from the licit and illicit attractions of
Coney Island, all of which were at odds with post-Puritan piety and
behavior. Despite these developments, the Yankee-Protestant
hegemony largely held until the massive influx of Southern and
Eastern European immigrants in the twentieth century. As The Rise
and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn demonstrates, in their churches,
synagogues, and other communal institutions, and on their
neighborhood streets, the new Brooklynites established the ethnic
mosaic that laid the groundwork for the theory of cultural
pluralism, giving it a central place within the American Creed.
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