Why We Left: Untold Stories And Songs Of America&Apos S First Immigrants Joanna Brooks University Minnesota Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Music

A Grounded Tender And Mournful Reckoning With The Catastrophes That Launched Poor White Anglos Into Their Role As Itinerant Foot Soldiers For Modern Imperialism—Now In Paperback New Preface Joanna Brooks’s Ancestors Were Among Early Waves Of Emigrants To Leave England North America Generations They Lived Hardscrabble Lives Eking Out Subsistence One Place After Another Continually Moved West Search Better Life Why Brooks Wondered Did Her People Countless Other English Subjects Abandon Homeland Such Unremitting Hardship? Question Leads On Journey Through An Obscure Dimension American History We Left Reveals Violence Dislocation Propelled Seventeenth- Eighteenth-Century Working-Class Emigration Presenting Powerful Restorying How Arrived At Our Present Moment Precarity Rootlessness Following Folk Ballads Back Across Atlantic Find Histories Economic Displacement Environmental Destruction Social Betrayal Heart Anglo-American Migrant Experience Offers Scholarly Personal Account Intergenerational Traumas Shape Turtle Island She Shares “Edward ” Which Influence Deforestation Peasant Immigrants “The House Carpenter’s Wife Emphasizes Impact Instability Colonial Enterprise Women From These Tragic Heartrending Uncovers Archaeology Worldviews America’s Earliest This Tenth-Anniversary Edition Includes Develops Haunting Historical Perspective Thought Knew Σελίδες: 224 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm