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Why we left [[electronic resource]] : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants / / Joanna Brooks



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Autore: Brooks Joanna <1971-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Why we left [[electronic resource]] : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants / / Joanna Brooks Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4529-4936-0
0-8166-8406-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819490103321
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