Immigrants in the Lands of Promise : : Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914 / / Samuel L. Baily.
Most studies of immigration to the New World have focused on the United States. Samuel L. Baily's eagerly awaited book broadens that perspective through a comparative analysis of Italian immigrants to Buenos Aires and New York City before World War I. It is one of the few works to trace Italian...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in Comparative History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 45 tables, 4 charts/graphs, 13 maps, 2 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part I The Italian Diaspora and the Old and New World Contexts of Migration
- 1. Italy and the Causes of Emigration
- 2. The Italian Migrations to Buenos Aires and New York City
- 3. What the Immigrants Found
- Part II The Adjustment of the Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City
- 4. Fare l' America
- 5. Residence Patterns and Residential Mobility
- 6. Family, Household, and Neighborhood
- 7. Formal Institutions before the Mass Migration
- 8. Formal Institutions during the Mass Migration Era
- 9. Constructing a Continuum
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index