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Brooks Joanna <1971-> |
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Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants / / Joanna Brooks |
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Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c2013 |
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1-4529-4936-0 |
0-8166-8406-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 of the worldviews of America's |
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