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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : brave men run
- No land of opportunity : folk ballads and the story of why we left
- Murder the brother who killed the tree : fratricide and the story of deforestation
- Sisters and a beaver hat : desire and the story of colonial commodity culture
- To sink it in the lonesome sea : betrayal and the story of indentured servitude
- Seduction of the house carpenter's wife: abandonment and the story of colonial
- Migration
- Epilogue : ballad of the laboring poor.