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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Brooks, Joanna, 1971-     Subjects     British Americans -- History -- 17th century.     British Americans -- History -- 18th century.     Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 17th century.     Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 18th century.     Folk music -- United States -- History.     Folk music -- Great Britain -- History.     United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century.     United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.     Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century.     Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brooks, Joanna, 1971-       by title:      Why we left [electro...         MARC Display

Why we left [electronic resource] : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants / Joanna Brooks. by Brooks, Joanna, 1971- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Subjects British Americans -- History -- 17th century.   British Americans -- History -- 18th century.   Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 17th century.   Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 18th century.   Folk music -- United States -- History.   Folk music -- Great Britain -- History.   United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century.   United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.   Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century.   Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=F94447AF-E1AE-497E-9938-63C154B1E4C5 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1936-1/{F94447AF-E1AE-497E-9938-63C154B1E4C5}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780816684069 (electronic bk.) 0816684065 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (pages cm.) Contents:  Introduction : brave men run -- No land of opportunity : folk ballads and the story of why we left -- Murder the brother who killed the tree : fratricide and the story of deforestation -- Sisters and a beaver hat : desire and the story of colonial commodity culture -- To sink it in the lonesome sea : betrayal and the story of indentured servitude -- Seduction of the house carpenter's wife: abandonment and the story of colonial -- Migration -- Epilogue : ballad of the laboring poor. Requests:  0 Summary:  Joanna Brooks reveals the harsh realities behind seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration-and dismantles the idea that these immigrants were drawn to America as a land of opportunity. Brooks follows American folk ballads back across the Atlantic, uncovering an archaeology of the worldviews of America's earliest immigrants and a haunting historical perspective on the ancestors we thought we knew.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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