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Book The Italian Immigrant in Urban America  1880 1920  as Reported in the Contemporary Periodical Press

Download or read book The Italian Immigrant in Urban America 1880 1920 as Reported in the Contemporary Periodical Press written by Salvatore Mondello and published by Ayer Publishing. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ethnic Alienation  the Italian Americans

Download or read book Ethnic Alienation the Italian Americans written by Patrick J. Gallo and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1974 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and ground-breaking study of the political behavior of three generations of Italian-Americans deals with a fundamental issue in American society: Does the political system tend to exclude certain groups from sharing political power?

Book United States Immigration  1800 1965  A History in Documents

Download or read book United States Immigration 1800 1965 A History in Documents written by James S. Pula and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over immigration has been a hallmark of the American nation since its earliest days, and it persists in generating a complex spectrum of opinions and emotions. United States Immigration, 1800-1965 provides a compact yet diverse selection of primary documents that helps to illuminate immigration as one of the defining features of the American social, cultural, and political landscape. A wide array of primary sources is included: documents written by immigrants that chronicle their own experiences; examples of pro- and anti-immigration sentiments and arguments; and government documents, including immigration laws and federal court rulings. In all, 75 documents (including 20 images) help to tell the story of United States immigration from roughly 1800 through to the Hart-Celler Act of 1965.

Book Round trip to America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Wyman
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780801481123
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Round trip to America written by Mark Wyman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States. Other scholars have dealt with particular national groups . . . but Wyman is the first to treat . . . every major group . . . . Wyman explains returning to Europe as not just the fulfillment of original intentions but also the result of 'anger at bosses and clocks, nostalgia for waiting families, ' nativist resentment and heavy-handed Americanization programs, and a complex of other problems. . . . Wyman's 'nine broad conclusions' about the returnees deserve to be read by everyone concerned with international migration."--Journal of American History

Book Italian Immigrants  1880 1920

Download or read book Italian Immigrants 1880 1920 written by Anne M. Todd and published by Blue Earth Books. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the history of U.S. immigration in the Coming to America series. Readers will learn the reasons why people left their homelands to start a new life in America and will follow their journeys through time lines and maps. Recipes and activity sidebars also allow students to celebrate the rich heritage and cultural contributions each group has made to American society. This series explores and supports the standards under "The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage," as required by the National Standards for History.

Book American Ethnic Groups  the European Heritage

Download or read book American Ethnic Groups the European Heritage written by Francesco Cordasco and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.

Book Italians in the United States

Download or read book Italians in the United States written by Francesco Cordasco and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti

Download or read book In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti written by Susan Mondshein Tejada and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a bold and brutal crime--robbery and murder in broad daylight on the streets of South Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920. Tried for the crime and convicted, two Italian-born laborers, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, went to the electric chair in 1927, professing their innocence. Journalist Susan Tejada has spent years investigating the case, sifting through diaries and police reports and interviewing descendants of major figures. She discovers little-known facts about Sacco, Vanzetti, and their supporters, and develops a tantalizing theory about how a doomed insider may have been coerced into helping professional criminals plan the heist. Tejada's close-up view of the case allows readers to see those involved as individual personalities. She also paints a fascinating portrait of a bygone era: Providence gangsters and Boston Brahmins; nighttime raids and midnight bombings; and immigration, unionism, draft dodging, and violent anarchism in the turbulent early years of the twentieth century. In many ways this is as much a cultural history as a true-crime mystery or courtroom drama. Because the case played out against a background of domestic terrorism, in a time that echoes our own, we have a new appreciation of the potential connection between fear and the erosion of civil liberties and miscarriages of justice.

Book Domesticating Foreign Struggles

Download or read book Domesticating Foreign Struggles written by Paola Gemme and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When antebellum Americans talked about the contemporary struggle for Italian unification (the Risorgimento), they were often saying more about themselves than about Italy. In Domesticating Foreign Struggles Paola Gemme unpacks the American cultural record on the Risorgimento not only to make sense of the U.S. engagement with the broader world but also to understand the nation’s domestic preoccupations. Swayed by the myth of the United States as a catalyst of and model for global liberal movements, says Gemme, Americans saw parallels to their own history in the Risorgimento--and they said as much in newspapers, magazines, travel accounts, diplomatic dispatches, poems, maps, and paintings. And yet, in American eyes, Italians were too civically deficient to ever achieve republican goals. Such a view, says Gemme, reaffirmed cherished beliefs both in the United States as the center of world events and in the notion of American exceptionalism. Gemme argues that Americans also pondered the place of “subordinate” ethnic groups in domestic culture--especially Irish Catholic immigrants and enslaved African Americans--through the discourse on Risorgimento Italy. Thus, says Gemme, national identity rested not only on differentiation from outside groups but also on a desire for internal racial and cultural homogeneity. Writing in a tradition pioneered by Amy Kaplan, Richard Slotkin, and others, Gemme advances the movement to “internationalize” American studies by situating the United States in its global cultural context.

Book Cognitive Carpentry

    Book Details:
  • Author : John L. Pollock
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780262161527
  • Pages : 744 pages

Download or read book Cognitive Carpentry written by John L. Pollock and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to the author's How to Build a Person, this work builds upon that theoretical groundwork for the implementation of rationality through artificial intelligence. It argues that progress in AI has stalled because of its creators' reliance upon unformulated intuitions about rationality. Instead, the author bases the OSCAR architecture upon an explicit philosophical theory of rationality, encompassing principles of practical cognition, epistemic cognition and defeasible reasoning. One of the results is the first automated defeasible reasoner capable of reasoning in a rich, logical environment.

Book Academic Perceptions of Italian American Immigration as Seen in Scholarly Journals of the 1880s

Download or read book Academic Perceptions of Italian American Immigration as Seen in Scholarly Journals of the 1880s written by Kathryn Defatta Barattini and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to highlight anytime ?Italian immigration? or ?Italian immigrants? are mentioned in a scholarly periodical, including both passing notations and in-depth critical analyses of these topics. These references allow us to examine the initial and evolving perceptions of the academic community toward mass Italian American immigration from its basic beginnings in the early 1880s through the end of that decade. In addition, references about Italian immigration from the popular periodical press of the time are juxtaposed with the scholarly references to allow further insight into the erudite community?s perceptions as they are framed within the public opinion of the day. Thus this study researches the perspectives of the researchers of a time that saw great changes in society and America?s national identity.

Book A Sicilian in East Harlem

Download or read book A Sicilian in East Harlem written by Salvatore Mondello and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Evangelicals at a Crossroads

Download or read book Evangelicals at a Crossroads written by Benjamin L. Hartley and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Boston revivalism and social reform

Book Cosmopolitan Culture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bonnie Menes Kahn
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2002-06-07
  • ISBN : 0743244036
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Cosmopolitan Culture written by Bonnie Menes Kahn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-06-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, Cosmopolitan Culture is Bonnie Menes Kahn's exploration of the gilt-edged dream of a tolerant city. "The author attempts to identify common features of great cities, past and present. Consequently, the reader is shuttled breathlessly from Babylon to Constantinople to Vienna to New York with brief side junkets. Kahn concludes that common characteristics of the great city meaning and purpose, tolerance, etc.created an environment where outsiders felt welcome to join the cosmopolitan culture and in the process strengthen it." —Library Journal

Book Disasters and Tragic Events  2 volumes

Download or read book Disasters and Tragic Events 2 volumes written by Mitchell Newton-Matza and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to the Sandy Hook school massacre of 2012, this two-volume encyclopedia surveys tragic events—natural and man-made, famous and forgotten—that helped shape American history. Tragedies and disasters have always been part of the fabric of American history. Some gave rise to reactions that profoundly influenced the nation. Others dominated public consciousness for a moment, then disappeared from collective memory. Organized chronologically, Disasters and Tragic Events examines these moments, covering both the familiar and the obscure and probing their immediate and long-term effects. Unlike other works that concentrate on a particular type of disaster, for example, weather- or medicine-related tragedies, this two-volume encyclopedia has no such limits. Its entries range from natural disasters, such as hurricanes and tornadoes, to civic disturbances, environmental disasters, epidemics and medical errors, transportation accidents, and more. The work is a perfect supplement for history classes and will also prove of great interest to the general reader.

Book American Jewry and United States Immigration Policy  1881 1953

Download or read book American Jewry and United States Immigration Policy 1881 1953 written by Sheldon Morris Neuringer and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: