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'I Buy This Piece of Ground Here' : An Italian Market-Gardener Community in Adelaide, 1920s-1970s.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Regan, Madeleine, author.
- Series:
- Biography Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--History.
- City and town life.
- Human ecology--History.
- Human ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Canberra : ANU Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- 'I buy this piece of ground here' is a group biography that examines the lives and work of a cohort of Italian migrant families from the Veneto region who arrived in Australia in the 1920s and formed a new community and identity as market gardeners in outer suburban Adelaide.
- Contents:
- 1.Building a group biography
- 2.Beginnings in Adelaide
- 3.Attachment to land
- 4.Family life and labour
- 5.Life within the community
- 6.Community in times of crisis - 7.Pathways: The 1.5 and second generations
- 8.Transforming the paese
- 9.Conclusion: Continuity of the paese.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-76046-670-0
- OCLC:
- 1484387531
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