The sweetness of freedom [[electronic resource] ] : stories of immigrants / / Stephen Garr Ostrander & Martha Aladjem Bloomfield
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| Autore: |
Ostrander Stephen Garr
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| Titolo: |
The sweetness of freedom [[electronic resource] ] : stories of immigrants / / Stephen Garr Ostrander & Martha Aladjem Bloomfield
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| Pubblicazione: | East Lansing, Mich., : Michigan State University Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (413 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 977.4/03 |
| Soggetto topico: | Immigrants - Michigan - History - 19th century |
| Immigrants - Michigan - History - 20th century | |
| Oral history - Michigan | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Michigan History 19th century |
| Michigan History 20th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
BloomfieldMartha Aladjem
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; I Have a Beautiful Country to Work From; Where the Streets Were Paved with Gold; America Was the Best Country to Live In; We Wanted to Be American; Immigration Didn't Solve All Our Problems; We Weren't Always Welcome in America; Anything That I've Set My Mind to, I Usually Accomplish; No Mexicans Allowed!; The Trip Became a GreatAdventure; The Promiseof a Better Future; We Didn't Know How Our Future Would Be; We Have to Make the Best of the Situation; From Korea with Love; Call Your Brother in Michigan |
| We Belong to America Just as Much as America Belongs to UsI Never Believed I Would Stay in America; I Can Almost Taste the Sweetness of Freedom; Be Like the Bees-Make Plenty of Hives and Honey; Afterword | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The Sweetness of Freedom presents an eclectic grouping of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century immigrants' narratives and the personal artifacts, historical documents, and photographs these travelers brought on their journeys to Michigan. Most of the oral histories in this volume are based on interviews conducted with the immigrants themselves. Some of the immigrants presented here hoped to gain better education and jobs. Others - refugees - fled their homelands because of war, poverty, repression, religious persecution, or ethnic discrimination. All dreamt of fre |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The sweetness of freedom |
| ISBN: | 1-62895-144-3 |
| 1-60917-202-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457517903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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