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Why would a man tie up a cheap suitcase with grass rope, leave his family and his paesani in Italy to risk his life and meager possessions among the dock thieves of Naples and Genoa to suffer the congestion and stench of steerage accommodations aboard ship, to endure the assembly-line processing of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2003.
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| Edición: | Paperback edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Why would a man tie up a cheap suitcase with grass rope, leave his family and his paesani in Italy to risk his life and meager possessions among the dock thieves of Naples and Genoa to suffer the congestion and stench of steerage accommodations aboard ship, to endure the assembly-line processing of Ellis Island, to wander almost incommunicado through a city of sneering strangers speaking an unknown tongue, to perform ten to twelve hours of heavy manual labor a day for wages of perhaps 1.65-most of which he probably owed to the ""company store"" before he got it? Why were there not just a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781439903926 1439903921 |