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Thomas Kessner
 

Ph.D. Columbia University
Academic Affiliation:Professor, Graduate Center
Office phone: 212-817-8437
E-Mail:tkessner@gc.cuny.edu

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Field of Scholarship

American, Urban and Social History

Selected Publications

Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900 (Simon & Schuster, 2003).

Fiorello H. Laguardia and the Making of Modern New York, (McGraw Hill Publishers, 1989. Paper, Penguin, 1991).

Today's Immigrants, Their Stories: A New Look at the Newest Americans (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. with Betty Caroli. paper, Oxford Galaxy, 1983).

The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City, 1980-1915. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977, Paper, Oxford, 1977).

Articles/Reviews/Essays:
"Depression as Opportunity," in The Landscape of Modernity (eds. David Ward, Olivier Zunz) (1992).

 

 
 
 
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