Peasant Maids, City Women : : From the European Countryside to Urban America /

Peasant Maids, City Women : : From the European Countryside to Urban America / / ed. by Christiane Harzig.

From the 1850s to the 1920s, women were 30 to 40 percent of all immigrants to the United States and their migration experiences were shaped by similar social, economic, demographic, and cultural forces. In Peasant Maids, City Women, a truly intercultural project, a team of historians follows several...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Blaschke, Monika,
Harzig, Christiane,
Knothe, Maria Anna,
Mageean, Deirdre,
Matovic, Margareta,
HerausgeberIn:
Harzig, Christiane,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1997
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 15 halftones, 2 maps, 28 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Women Move from the European Countryside to Urban America
  • PART I. Rural Life
  • 1. No Way but Out: German Women in Mecklenburg
  • 2. To Be Matched or to Move: Irish Women's Prospects in Munster
  • 3. Maids in Motion: Swedish Women in Dalsland
  • 4. Land and Loyalties: Contours of Polish Women's Lives
  • PART II. Urban Life
  • 5. Creating a Community: German-American Women in Chicago
  • 6 Making Sense and Providing Structure: Irish-American Women in the Parish Neighborhood
  • 7. Embracing a Middle-Class Life: Swedish-American Women in Lake View
  • 8. Recent Arrivals: Polish Immigrant Women's Response to the City
  • Index

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