Why we left [[electronic resource]] : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants / / Joanna Brooks
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| Autore: |
Brooks Joanna <1971->
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| Titolo: |
Why we left [[electronic resource]] : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants / / Joanna Brooks
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.9/06912097309032 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Why we left |
| ISBN: | 1-4529-4936-0 |
| 0-8166-8406-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819490103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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