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  • - BRITISH WAR BRIDES IN AMERICA
    av Jenel Virden
    300,-

  • - Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965
    av Marilyn Halter
    300,-

  • - Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town 1880-1960
    av Jose Alamillo
    300,-

    Using oral history interviews and citrus company records, this book argues that Mexican Americans helped lay the groundwork for civil rights struggles and electoral campaigns in the post-World War II era. It also shows how Mexicans transformed leisure spaces into politicized spaces where workers voiced their grievances and built solidarity.

  • - Race, identity and Nation, 1916-39
    av Gabriela F. Arredondo
    280,-

    Becoming Mexican in early-twentieth-century Chicago

  • - Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945
    av Nancy C. Carnevale
    290 - 1 219,-

    An insightful history of Italian immigrants' personal experience of language in America

  • - Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925
    av David M. Emmons
    340,-

  • - Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950
    av Gilbert G. Gonzalez
    247,-

  • - Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest
    av Linda Schelbitzki Pickle
    354,-

  • - The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit, 1805-1925
    av JoEllen Vinyard
    344,-

  • - Rethinking U.S. Immigration History
     
    421,-

    Explores the ways in which immigrant lives are shaped by transnational bonds, globalization, family ties, and personal choice, and the ways in which they engender a sense of belonging and a sense of themselves as "Americans." It considers a plurality of historical, economic, regional, familial, and cultural contexts.

  • av Suzanne M. Sinke
    480,-

    In this ethnographic portrait, the author examines the shifting gender roles of many Dutch Protestant women who crossed the Atlantic from 1880 to 1920 to make new homes in the United States. Lively and absorbing, the stories of their lives are told in their own words as preserved in personal letters and diaries.

  • - THE UTOPIAN DREAM IN EUROPE AND AMERICA
    av Robert P. Sutton
    378,-

  • - Labor Migration and the Formation of Multiethnic States
     
    247,-

  • - Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-99
    av Carol Lynn McKibben
    247,-

    Analyzes the processes of migration and settlement of Sicilian fishers from three villages in Western Sicily to Monterey, California. This title demonstrates that the cannery work done by Sicilian immigrant women is crucial in terms of the identity formation and community development.

  • - Making the United States Home, 1870-1930
    av Orm Overland
    438,-

    Focusing on a period of American history marked by a sharp division between Anglo-Americans and non-Anglo European immigrants, this title examines the creation and dissemination of "homemaking myths": stories that weave immigrants into the basic fabric of America by linking them to the pivotal events and ideas of their new homeland.

  • - ITALIAN MIGRANTS IN URBAN AMERICA
    av Diane C. Vecchio
    432,-

    Using Italian and American sources, this book reveals that women in Italy had economic responsibilities that often included work experiences outside of the home, including jobs as midwives and businesswomen. This book demonstrates the regional variation of Italian women's work as well as the skills they transplanted to America.

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