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Alexander, June,
THE IMMIGRANT CHURCH AND COMMUNITY: Pittsburgh
Slovak Catholics and Lutherans, 1880-1915.
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987. NEW copy, green boards, issued
by publisher without dust jacket. 1st edition. "A rigorously researched and
carefully constructed monograph on the formation of Slovak
Catholic and Lutheran churches and communities in the
pre-World War I Pittsburgh area."
-- Journal of American Ethnic History.
OUT OF PRINT.
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Auch, Mary Jane, ASHES OF ROSES
. NEW copy; hardcover with dust jacket. (Sagebrush Education Resources).
250 pages.
~~~ Sixteen-year-old Rose Nolan and her family are grateful to have finally reached America, the land of opportunity. But their happiness is shattered when part of their family is forced to return to Ireland. Rose wants to succeed and stays in New York with her younger sister Maureen. The sisters struggle to survive and barely do so by working at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Then, just as Rose is forming friendships and settling in, a devastating fire forces her, Maureen, and their friends to fight for their lives. Surrounded by pain, tragedy, and ashes, Rose wonders if there is anything left for her in this great land of America.
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Conolly-Smith, Peter,
TRANSLATING AMERICA: An Immigrant Press Visualizes American Popular Culture, 1895-1918
. NEW copy; hardcover with dust jacket. (Smithsonian Institution Press).
272 pages.
~~~ Focusing on the three most significant German immigrant newspapers published in New York, Conolly-Smith explores how the images in the periodicals encouraged German immigrants to participate in the emerging forms of popular culture, and thus hastened their identification as Americans rather than Germans.
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Debouzy, Marianne.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY:
Immigrants, Workers, and Citizens in the American Republic, 1880-1920.
University of Illinois Press, 1997. NEW copy. Hardcover issued without dust
jacket. 344 pp.
"Reassesses the American immigrant experience from an international perspective,
seeing it as a transatlantic interaction between social movements, intellectual
influences, and militant networks in the old and new worlds."
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Dunne, Finley Peter,
MR DOOLEY AND THE CHICAGO IRISH: The Autobiography
of a 19th-century Ethnic Group.
Washington DC: Catholic Univeristy of America Press, 1987.
VG (adhesive shadow). Trade paperback. 1st (of this)
edition, 329 pages. "Crosby unfolds the mystery of personal
uniqueness, shedding new light on the unrepeatability of each
human person." OUT OF PRINT.
15.00
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Garcia, Mario T.,
DESERT IMMIGRANTS: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920.
(New Haven: Yale U Press. 1981). As new,
trade paperback; illustrations, 328 pages. "The book is a major
contribution- the product of serious research, competently
written, and almost entirely free of partisan emotion."
-C.L. Sonnichsen, Journal of Arizona History,
7th printing. Currently in print at $21.
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Gish, Theodore and Richard Spuler, ed.
EAGLE IN THE NEW WORLD: German Immigration to Texas
and America. Fine/fine.
College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1986. 1st edition. 252 pages.
OUT OF PRINT.
25.00
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Hurwitz, Johanna, DEAR EMMA
. NEW copy; hardcover with dust jacket. (Harper Collins).
Illustrated by Barbara Garrison. 150 pages.
~~~ In her letters to a Vermont friend, eighth grader Dossi,
a Russian, Jewish immigrant living in the Lower East Side of New
York City in 1910, shares her thoughts about her new brother-in-law, the diphtheria epidemic, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Ages 8-12
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Jacobson, Matthew Frye,
SPECIAL SORROWS: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States.
NEW copy, trade PAPERBACK. (University of California Press).
327 pages.
~~~ A fascinating study of the ways Polish, Jewish, and Irish immigrants in the United States retained the cultures of their homeland and became involved in nationalist struggles there, while assimilating into American society.
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Mazzucco, Melania G.,
VITA.
. NEW copy; hardcover with dust jacket.
(Harper Collins).
433 pages.
~~~
It is April 1903, and the steamship Republic spills more than 2,000
hopeful immigrants onto the pier at Ellis Island. Among them are
Diamante, age 12, and Vita, 9, sent by their poor families in
southern Italy to make their way in America. Amid the chaos and
splendor of New York City, the poverty and crime of Little Italy,
Diamante and Vita struggle to survive, to grow up and, most of all,
to become American. From journeys west in search of work to journeys
back to Italy in search of their roots, to Vita's son's encounter
with his mother's hometown while serving as an army captain in World
War II, Vita both slices through the mythology of the immigrant
experience and pays imaginative homage to it. Weaving her own family
history into this tale of discovery, love and loss, award-winning
author Melania Mazzucco has created an epic that is passionate,
beautifully vibrant and sometimes shockingly dark.
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Ramos, Jorge,
DYING TO CROSS: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. (Rayo).
173 pages.
~~~ From the Emmy Award-winning journalist and bestselling
author comes a gripping narrative account of the tragic deaths of
19 immigrants in Texas as they tried to make their way across the
Mexican-American border.
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Stivers, Richard,
HAIR OF THE DOG: Irish Drinking and Its American
Stereotype. NY: Continuum. 2000.
NEW copy, trade
paperback. 1st edition. 224 pages. "Stivers's 1976 work examines the roots of the unfortunate
stereotype in both Ireland and the United States that the
Irish are brawlers and barflies. For this edition, Stivers
has revised his findings and added a new foreword by Andrew
Greeley." -- Library Journal. OUT OF PRINT.
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