LEADER 03803nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910814025103321 005 20240516123948.0 010 $a0-8147-3272-0 010 $a0-8147-3321-2 010 $a1-4294-1413-8 024 7 $a10.18574/nyu/9780814733219 035 $a(CKB)1000000000467187 035 $a(EBL)865491 035 $a(OCoLC)779828101 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107789 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11138530 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107789 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10017231 035 $a(PQKB)11142304 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865491 035 $a(OCoLC)76839018 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10791 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865491 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10137147 035 $a(DE-B1597)548327 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814733219 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000467187 100 $a20050606d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAuthors of their lives $ethe personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century /$fDavid A. Gerber 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (432 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-3200-3 311 $a0-8147-3171-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTraditions of inquiry -- Forming selves in letters -- Writing with a purpose : immigrant epistolarity and the culture of emigration -- Using postal systems : transnational networks on the edge of modernity -- Establishing voice, theme, and rhythm -- When correspondence wanes -- Thomas Spencer Niblock : a dialogue of respectability and failure -- Catherine Grayston Bond : letter-writing as the practice of existential accounting -- Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald : longing for her "little isle" from a farm in central New York -- Dr. Thomas Steel : the difficulties of achieving the reunited family. 330 $a2008 United States Postal System's Rita Lloyd Moroney Award. In the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which they voluntarily left? Regardless of literacy level, they wrote letters, explains David A. Gerber in this path-breaking study of British immigrants to the U.S. and Canada who wrote and received letters during the nineteenth century. Scholars have long used immigrant letters as a lens to examine the experiences of immigrant groups and the communities the 606 $aBritish Americans$vCorrespondence 606 $aBritish$zCanada$vCorrespondence 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$vCorrespondence 606 $aImmigrants$zCanada$vCorrespondence 606 $aLetter writing$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTransnationalism$xHistory$y19th century$vSources 606 $aImmigrants' writings, American 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y19th century$vSources 607 $aCanada$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y19th century$vSources 607 $aGreat Britain$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y19th century$vSources 615 0$aBritish Americans 615 0$aBritish 615 0$aImmigrants 615 0$aImmigrants 615 0$aLetter writing$xHistory 615 0$aTransnationalism$xHistory 615 0$aImmigrants' writings, American. 676 $a973.5/092/241 700 $aGerber$b David A.$f1944-$01638571 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814025103321 996 $aAuthors of their lives$94063770 997 $aUNINA