Samuel L. Baily

Immigrants in the Lands of Promise (eBook, ePUB)

Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501705014
• Artikelnr.: 49444626

Autorenporträt

Samuel L. Baily is Professor of History at Rutgers University. Among his other books are Labor, Politics and Nationalism in Argentina, The United States and the Development of South America, and One Family, Two Worlds (with Franco Ramella).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Migration from a Participant Family's Perspective
Introduction: The Comparative Study of Transnational Italian Migration
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 I America
5. Residence Patterns and Residential Mobility
6. Family, Household, and Neighborhood
7. Formal Institutions before the Mass Migration Era
8. Formal Institutions during the Mass Migration Era
9. Constructing a Continuum