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

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brooks, Joanna, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Subjects:
1600-1799
British Americans > History > 17th century.
British Americans > History > 18th century.
Immigrants > United States > History > 17th century.
Immigrants > United States > History > 18th century.
Folk music > United States > History.
Folk music > Great Britain > History.
Américains d'origine britannique > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Américains d'origine britannique > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Musique folklorique > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > General.
British Americans
Emigration and immigration
Folk music
Immigrants
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 17th century.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History > 17th century.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History > 18th century.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Histoire > 17e siècle.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Great Britain
United States
History
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