The Melting Pot and the Altar: Marital Assimilation in Early Twentieth-Century Wisconsin
ISBN: 9780816661534
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Marriage -- Wisconsin; Marriage Mixed -- Wisconsin; Minorities -- Wisconsin; Assimilation (Sociology);

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

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