Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants
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Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants
University of Minnesota Press, c2013
- : hc : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-207) and index
Contents of Works
- 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