| Italian Repatriation from the United States, 1900-1914 Contributor(s): Caroli, Betty Boyd (Author) |
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ISBN: 0595484476 ISBN-13: 9780595484478 Publisher: iUniverse OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: When Betty Boyd Caroli traveled to Italy on a Fulbright in 1970, she had a purpose: to find Italians who had journeyed to America to work between 1900 and 1914 and then returned to live in Italy. Sometimes she found clubs of "repatriates," sitting under American flags and pictures of JFK. Individuals told her their stories-why they left for "bread" but returned for "family." Caroli puts these workers in context, giving statistics from both countries and citing accounts written by their contemporaries, to help us understand the price paid by these "birds of passage." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - History | Europe - Italy - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 325.245 |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 6" W x 9" (0.42 lbs) 124 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Betty Boyd Caroli traveled to Italy on a Fulbright in 1970, she had a purpose: to find Italians who had journeyed to America to work between 1900 and 1914 and then returned to live in Italy. Sometimes she found clubs of "repatriates", sitting under American flags and pictures of JFK. Individuals told her their stories-why they left for "bread" but returned for "family". Caroli puts these workers in context, giving statistics from both countries and citing accounts written by their contemporaries, to help us understand the price paid by these "birds of passage". |
