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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: La Sorte, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003.
Edición:Paperback edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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245 1 3 |a La Merica :  |b images of Italian greenhorn experience /  |c Michael La Sorte. 
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505 0 |a Preface; 1. Leaving Italy; 2. Landing in New York; 3. Working in America; 4. Living in America; 5. Italglish: The Immigrant Idiom; 6. Repatriation; Notes; Sources and Further Reading; Index. 
520 |a 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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