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

Joanna Brooks

University of Minnesota Press, c2013

  • : hc : alk. paper

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Note

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
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