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Authors of their lives [[electronic resource] ] : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century / / David A. Gerber



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Autore: Gerber David A. <1944-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Authors of their lives [[electronic resource] ] : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century / / David A. Gerber Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (432 p.)
Disciplina: 973.5/092/241
Soggetto topico: British Americans
British - Canada
Immigrants - United States
Immigrants - Canada
Letter writing - History - 19th century
Transnationalism - History - 19th century
Immigrants' writings, American
Soggetto geografico: United States Emigration and immigration History 19th century Sources
Canada Emigration and immigration History 19th century Sources
Great Britain Emigration and immigration History 19th century Sources
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Traditions 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 2008 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
Titolo autorizzato: Authors of their lives  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-3272-0
0-8147-3321-2
1-4294-1413-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910777604703321
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