Vai al contenuto principale della pagina
Titolo: | Memories of Carolinian immigrants [[electronic resource] ] : autobiographies, diaries, and letters from colonial times to the present / / edited by Andreas Lixl |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Md., : University Press Of America, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
Disciplina: | 929.20973 |
Soggetto topico: | Immigrants - South Carolina |
Immigrants - North Carolina | |
Soggetto geografico: | South Carolina Biography |
North Carolina Biography | |
South Carolina Emigration and immigration History Sources | |
North Carolina Emigration and immigration History Sources | |
Altri autori: | Lixl-PurcellAndreas <1951-> |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-256) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Part 1 Recollections of Colonial Immigrants-Christoph von Graffenried: Account of the Founding of New Bern; Robert Witherspoon: Memories of a South Carolinian Settler; James Murray: Letters from a Scottish Pioneer; Olaudah Equiano: An African's Account; August Part 2 Memories of Revolution, Peace, and War 1776-1865-Christiana Teulon: Declaration of a Revolutionary War Widow; Joseph Salvador: Letter from Charleston; The Confession of Monday Gell; Chang and Eng Bunker: Family Letters; Omar ibn Said: Autobiography of a Part 3 New Carolinians in the New South 1865-1938-Nicholas Said: Memories of an African Muslim; John Wagener: South Carolina: Home of the Industrious Immigrant; Nettie McCormick Henley: Scottish Legacies; Louis Philippe Guigou: Waldensian Trail of FaithGeorge M Part 4 Modern Day Memories of Carolinian Immigrants-Max Heller: Memories of a Greenville Mayor; Durba Ahmed: Not as American as Apple Pie; Gisela Hood: Cold War Bride; The Khalid Family: Every Place That You Call Yours Is God's; Kwame Dawes: A Jamaican Father; |
Sommario/riassunto: | This anthology presents personal narratives and historical photographs that illuminate the diversity of immigrant experiences in North and South Carolina since 1700. The broad focus of the book encompasses all walks of life and documents three centuries of social, political, artistic, and cultural history. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Memories of Carolinian immigrants |
ISBN: | 1-282-47965-2 |
9786612479656 | |
0-7618-4415-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910778025803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |