03411nam 2200745 a 450 991097110910332120230803025922.01-4529-4936-00-8166-8406-5(CKB)2670000000355198(EBL)1184489(OCoLC)842883497(SSID)ssj0000873213(PQKBManifestationID)11478078(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873213(PQKBWorkID)10866522(PQKB)10623721(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177486(MiAaPQ)EBC1184489(OCoLC)849933801(MdBmJHUP)muse30053(Au-PeEL)EBL1184489(CaPaEBR)ebr10698342(CaONFJC)MIL526151(OCoLC)842929770(EXLCZ)99267000000035519820130524d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhy we left untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants /Joanna BrooksMinneapolis, Minn. University of Minnesota Pressc20131 online resource (226 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-8125-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 earliest immigrants and a haunting historical perspective on the ancestors we thought we knew.British AmericansHistory17th centuryBritish AmericansHistory18th centuryImmigrantsUnited StatesHistory17th centuryImmigrantsUnited StatesHistory18th centuryFolk musicUnited StatesHistoryFolk musicGreat BritainHistoryUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationHistory17th centuryUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationHistory18th centuryGreat BritainEmigration and immigrationHistory17th centuryGreat BritainEmigration and immigrationHistory18th centuryBritish AmericansHistoryBritish AmericansHistoryImmigrantsHistoryImmigrantsHistoryFolk musicHistory.Folk musicHistory.305.9/06912097309032Brooks Joanna1971-1819899MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971109103321Why we left4380884UNINA