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题名/责任者:

Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants / Joanna Brooks, with a new preface.

出版发行项:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2024]

ISBN:

9780816681266

载体形态项:

xxi, 213 pages ; 22 cm

个人责任者:

Brooks, Joanna, 1971- author.

论题主题:

British Americans-History-17th century.

论题主题:

British Americans-History-18th century.

论题主题:

Immigrants-United States-History-17th century.

论题主题:

Immigrants-United States-History-17th century.

论题主题:

Folk music-United States-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Folk music-United States-History and criticism.

地理名称主题:

United States-Emigration and immigration-History-17th century.

地理名称主题:

United States-Emigration and immigration-History-18th century.

地理名称主题:

Great Britain-Emigration and immigration-History-17th century.

地理名称主题:

Great Britain-Emigration and immigration-History-18th century.

中图法分类号:

D771.23

一般附注:

Originally published: 2013.

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index.

内容附注:

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 -- Two 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.

摘要附注:

"Why We Left reveals the dislocation, violence, and deforestation that propelled seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration, offering a powerful restorying of the journey to our present moment of precarity and rootlessness. Following American folk ballads back across the Atlantic, Joanna Brooks shares a scholarly and personal account of the intergenerational traumas that shape the history of white Anglos on Turtle Island"--

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