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Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants / Joanna Brooks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooks, Joanna, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- British Americans--History--17th century.
- British Americans.
- British Americans--History--18th century.
- Immigrants--United States--History--17th century.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--United States--History--18th century.
- Folk music--United States--History.
- Folk music.
- Folk music--Great Britain--History.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--17th century.
- United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--18th century.
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History--17th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Joanna Brooks reveals the harsh realities behind seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration-and dismantles the idea that these immigrants were drawn to America as a land of opportunity. Brooks follows American folk ballads back across the Atlantic, uncovering an archaeology of the worldviews of America's earliest immigrants and a haunting historical perspective on the ancestors we thought we knew.
- Contents:
- Introduction : brave men run
- No land of opportunity : folk ballads and the story of why we left
- Murder the brother who killed the tree : fratricide and the story of deforestation
- Sisters and a beaver hat : desire and the story of colonial commodity culture
- To sink it in the lonesome sea : betrayal and the story of indentured servitude
- Seduction of the house carpenter's wife: abandonment and the story of colonial
- Migration
- Epilogue : ballad of the laboring poor.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 24, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4936-0
- 0-8166-8406-5
- OCLC:
- 842883497
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