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Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants /

Joanna Brooks reveals the harsh realities behind seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration-and dismantles the idea that these immigrants were drawn to America as a land of opportunity. Brooks follows American folk ballads back across the Atlantic, uncovering an archaeology...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brooks, Joanna, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Joanna Brooks reveals the harsh realities behind seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration-and dismantles the idea that these immigrants were drawn to America as a land of opportunity. Brooks follows American folk ballads back across the Atlantic, uncovering an archaeology of the worldviews of America's earliest immigrants and a haunting historical perspective on the ancestors we thought we knew.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780816684069
0816684065