A House for All Peoples: Ethnic Politics in Chicago 1890-1936

This book assesses the role of urban ethnic groups, particularly in terms of the rise of the Democratic Party to national predominance between 1928 and 1932. It builds quantitative and qualitative models for the study of ethnic groups in terms of political behavior. Focusing clearly upon political change and the role of ethnicity, the work advances the hypothesis that Chicago's ethnic groups responded as ethnic groups, rather than on socio-economic or other bases, when they shifted their party a

Author: John M. Allswang
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780813150987

About the Author

John M. Allswang is assistant professor of history at California State College in Los Angeles.

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