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Les Icariens
The UTOPIAN DREAM in EUROPE and AMERICA
Inbunden, 1994
425 kr
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This is the first complete account of the epic tale of the Icarians and their dream of creating a perfect society without money or property. Robert P. Sutton analyzes the origins of Icarianism in the milieu of French politics in the 1840s, discusses its founder Etienne Cabet, and traces the …
Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920
Inbunden, 2002
578 kr
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In this deftly researched ethnographic portrait, Suzanne M. Sinke skillfully adapts the concept of social reproduction to examine the shifting gender roles of tens of thousands of Dutch Protestant women who crossed the Atlantic from 1880 to 1920 to make new homes in the United States.Examining the …
Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women
ITALIAN MIGRANTS in URBAN AMERICA
Inbunden, 2006
526 kr
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Challenging long-held patriarchal assumptions about Italian women's work in the United States
New Language, a New World
Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945
Inbunden, 2009
1275 kr
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An examination of Italian immigrants and their children in the early twentieth century, A New Language, A New World is the first full-length historical case study of one immigrant group's experience with language in America. Incorporating the interdisciplinary literature on language within a …
Labor and Community
Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950
Häftad, 1994
329 kr
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The emergence, maturity, and decline of the southern California citrus industry is seen here through the network of citrus worker villages that dotted part of the state's landscape from 1910 to 1960. Labor and Community shows how Mexican immigrants shaped a partially independent existence within a …
Good-bye, Piccadilly
BRITISH WAR BRIDES in AMERICA
Av Jenel Virden
Häftad, 1996
367 kr
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As much of the world tried to return to normal living and working patterns after World War II, some 70,000 British women chose to be uprooted from the homeland they knew and loved. These were British war brides, a uniformly young group who by marrying American servicemen became part of the largest …
For Faith and Fortune
The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit, 1805-1925
Häftad, 1998
411 kr
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Even before the massive European immigrations of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Detroit had a tradition of Catholicism. Multiple immigrant groups became part of the city and considered it important to educate their daughters as well as their sons within the Church. JoEllen McNergney …
Italian Workers of the World
Labor Migration and the Formation of Multiethnic States
Av Donna R. Gabaccia, Fraser Ottanelli
Häftad, 2005
339 kr
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In Italian Workers of the World, a distinguished roster of contributors examines how the reception of immigrants in their new countries shaped their sense of national identity and shaped the multiethnic states where they settled. Argentina and Brazil welcomed Italian migrants as a civilizing …
Beyond Cannery Row
Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-99
Häftad, 2006
339 kr
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Presenting a nuanced story of women, migration, community, industry, and civic life at the turn of the twentieth century, Carol Lynn McKibben's Beyond Cannery Row analyzes the processes of migration and settlement of Sicilian fishers from three villages in Western Sicily to Monterey, …
American Dreaming, Global Realities
Rethinking U.S. Immigration History
Av Donna R. Gabaccia, Vicki L. Ruiz
Häftad, 2006
512 kr
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An introduction to the best from the new directions in U.S. immigration historyRepresenting a selection of the finest new research on immigration, American Dreaming, Global Realities explores the ways in which immigrant lives and those of their children are shaped by transnational bonds, …
Diaspora in the Countryside
Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Disjuncture
Häftad, 2006
338 kr
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From the 1930s to the 1980s, the North American countryside faced a profound cultural transformation as rural society became fragmented and dispersed. Nowhere was this more true than among close-knit, ethnoreligious communities such as the Mennonites. Farm families were required to accept new …
Mexican Chicago
Race, Identity and Nation, 1916-39
Häftad, 2008
367 kr
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Mexican Chicago builds on previous studies of Mexicans in the United States while challenging static definitions of “American” and underlying assumptions of assimilation. Gabriela F. Arredondo contends that because of the revolutionary context from which they came, Mexicans in Chicago between 1916 …
New Language, a New World
Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945
Häftad, 2012
353 kr
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An examination of Italian immigrants and their children in the early twentieth century, A New Language, A New World is the first full-length historical case study of one immigrant group's experience with language in America. Incorporating the interdisciplinary literature on language within a …
