Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction: The Study of Marital Assimilation; Chapter 1: Wisconsin's Immigrants; Chapter 2: Intermarriage Rates; Chapter 3: Individual Factors; Chapter 4: Group Factors; Chapter 5: The Melting Pot and the Altar: Conclusions; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary
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
