Download or read book The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves written by Werner Sollors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent, collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary people--new immigrants and sharecroppers, cooks and fishermen, women and men working in sweatshops, in the city, and on the land. First published in 1906, and reissued a decade ago, this new edition of Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans is expanded to include lives Holt did not include in his original selection, as well as a new preface by Werner Sollors.
Download or read book Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves Expanded E written by H. Holt and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves written by Hamilton Holt and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life Story of a Lithuanian; The Life Story of a Polish Sweatshop Girl; The Life Story of an Italian Bootblack; The Life Story of a Greek Peddler; The Life Story of a Swedish Farmer; The Life Story of a French Dressmaker; The Life Story of a German Nurse Girl; The Life Story of an Irish Cook; The Life Story of a Farmer's Wife; The Life Story of an Itinerant Minister; The Life Story of a Negro Peon; The Life Story of an Indian; The Life Story of an Igorrote Chief; The Life Story of a Syrian; The Life Story of a Japanese Servant; The Life Story of a Chinaman
Download or read book The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans written by Hamilton Holt and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short autobiographies, compiled and edited by Hamilton Holt, offers an eye-opening account of how ordinary Americans lived and worked at the turn of the 20th century. The contributors to this collection were anonymous, drawn from various vocations of American society. The occupations range from laborers to dressmakers to domestic servants to peddlars and bootblacks. A minority of the accounts are dictated, but the bulk are written or edited from manuscripts solicited by the original publisher. We witness a society which had, owing to decades of immigration from around the world, become industrious and diverse. Several contributors to this collection are first generation immigrants; for many the conditions of the United States at the time were jarringly different. Some yearn for their homelands, and for the comforts and customs which they left behind, while others openly admire the attitude and values of the country they have come to call home. Not only do we gain a historic perspective of the USA, we also learn how life was for certain contributors in their homelands. The contrast between the bustling, industrialized cities of America and the generally quieter homelands is marked. The most obvious trend across all of the tales however is the immense detail of everyday living, of the hard work, of the budgeting and money sent to relatives at home. Despite being ordinary, everyday people, each has a tale or a perspective that sheds insight upon life. Emotions and human qualities leap from the pages: the dignity and naive intellectualism of the Japanese servant; the ambition and genial pride of the French dressmaker; the determination and faith of the visually impaired preacher; the traditionalism and community of a Chinese laundryman. The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans is a valuable and vivid collection of anecdotes worthy of attention and possessed of additional, historic value in the modern day.
Download or read book LIFE STORIES OF UNDISTINGUISHED AMERICANS written by HAMILTON. HOLT and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves 1906 written by Hamilton Holt and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1906 Edition.
Download or read book The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans As Told by Themselves written by Hamilton Holt and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII THE LIFE STOEY OF AN IGOEEOTE CHIEF The genial exponent of the simple life who furnished the following article by talking through an interpreter, was a large, plump Filipino, whose age was probably forty-eight. He was clad in two necklaces, two bracelets, some tattoo marks and a loin cloth. He speaks no English and therefore only his ideas and statements of fact are given. In regard to figures he is quite impressionistic, "a thousand" representing any very large number. He was the leader of the band of Igorrotee at Coney Island when he told this story of his life. I AM Chief Fomoaley, of the Bontoc Igorrotes, and I have come to the United States with my people in order to show the white people our civilization. The white man that lives in our town asked me to come, and said that Americans were anxious to see us. Since we have been here great crowds of white people have come and watched us, and they seemed pleased. We are the oldest people in the world. All others come from us. The first man and woman--there were two women--lived on our mountains and their children lived there after them, till they grew bad and God sent a great flood that drowned them, all except seven, who escaped in a canoe and landed, after the flood went down, on a high mountain. Three times a year our old men call the people together and tell them the old stories of how God made the world and then the animals, and lastly men. These stories have been handed down in that way from the very beginning, so that we know they are true. The white men have some stories, too, like that. Perhaps they may have heard them from one of us. At any rate, they are wrong about some things. There was a white man who told us that the place where the canoe landed after the...
Download or read book The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans written by Hamilton Holt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans: As Told by Themselves When you propose to tell a story to children they interrupt at the first sentence with the question, Is it a true story? As we evade or ignore this natural and pertinent inquiry they finally cease to ask it, and we blur for them the edges of reality until it fades off into the mists. The hardest part of the training of the scientist is to get back the clear sight of his childhood. But nowadays our educators do not do quite so much as formerly to eu courage the mythopeic faculty of children. It has been found that their imagination can be exercised by other objects than the imag inary. Consequently the number of readers who are impatient of any detectable deviation from truth is increasing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves Scholar s Choice Edition written by Hamilton Holt and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book LIFE STORIES OF UNDISTINGUISHE written by Hamilton 1872-1951 Ed Holt and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans As Told by Themselves Primary Source Edition written by Hamilton Holt and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book Plain Folk written by David M. Katzman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plain Folk depicts both the ordinary occupations and ethnic and racial diversity of America at the turn of the century. Katzman and Tuttle have drawn upon 75 brief autobiographies or "lifelets" of working-class Americans published between 1902 and 1906 in The Independent magazine. Among the seventeen life stories included here are those of a Lithuanian stockyards worker in Chicago, a Polish sweatshop girl and a Chinese merchant in New York City, a black peon in rural Georgia, and a Swedish farmer in Minnesota. Together they provide an unmediated and seldom-seen view of American life during this period.
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Download or read book A History of American Working Class Literature written by Nicholas Coles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place, and time shape opportunity and desire. The subjects range from transportation narratives and slave songs to the literature of deindustrialization and globalization. Among the literary forms discussed are memoir, journalism, film, drama, poetry, speeches, fiction, and song. Essays focus on plantation, prison, factory, and farm, as well as on labor unions, workers' theaters, and innovative publishing ventures. Chapters spotlight the intersections of class with race, gender, and place. The variety, depth, and many provocations of this History are certain to enrich the study and teaching of American literature.
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Download or read book Mixed Race Literature written by Jonathan Brennan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents the first scholarly attempt to map the rapidly emerging field of mixed-race literature, defined as texts written by authors who represent multiple cultural and literary traditions. It also situates these literatures in relation to contemporary fields of literary inquiry.
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