From the records of my deepest memory : personal sources and the study of European migration, 18th-20th centuries / Óscar Álvarez Gila, Alberto Angulo Morales, (dirs.).
Getting into the forest, immigrants and massiveness. The Basques in Tandil, Argentina, 19th century / Marcelino Irianni. A review of correspondence between the Canary Islands and the Americas in the eighteenth century / Adolfo I. Arbelo García -- Extreme correspondence. Simón Blívar: from innocent youth to bitter military glory / Alejandro Cardozo Uzcátegui -- The memory of a people that don't write. Letters, autobiographies and other personal accounts of Basque emigrants, 19th-20th centuries / Óscar Álvarez Gila -- The debate on personal sources for the history of Italian emigration / Matteo Sanfilippo -- "For a quiet, satisfying life..." Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century and its reflection in immigrants' letters to the information bureaus / Gur Alroey -- Instruments for managing affections and interests: the letters and photographs of Galician families with emigrants (1900-1960) / Raúl Soutelo Vázquez -- Union ties: letters, correspondence and exchanged messages among Spanish e-/immigrants (São Paulo, Brazil) / Maria Izilda Santos de Matos -- The letters of Francisco Moura: memories of immigration, from Santa Comba to Rio de Janeiro / Érica Sarmiento da Silva -- Love letters in the background of immigration: contributions to a study on prostitution (Rio de Janeiro, 1900-1920)/ Lená M. de Menezes -- Getting into the forest, immigrants and massiveness. The Basques in Tandil, Argentina, 19th century / Marcelino Irianni.
Summary:
"A renewed interest in the study of human mobility -including migratory movements, exiles and other forced migrations- has lately came at the hands of the use of private sources (letters, diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, etc.) of the migrants themselves. Therefore a new set of theoretical and methodological approaches has arisen, linked with the question of how to make proper use of documentary sources for a better understanding and richer interpretation of the historical phenomena linked to mobility processes. It seems clear that it is necessary to deepen the reflection on their adequacy, as well as the possibilities and weaknesses derived from the use of personal documents when trying to shed more light onto the knowledge of such a complex topic as historical migrations can be. What role has historiography given to personal documents? How can we use these kinds of sources in our research? What is the role of other iconographical elements, such as maps, photographs, portraits, etc., in the effort to provide more precision and quality to our historical approaches to past realities? These and other similar questions are the point of departure for the conception of this book, in which we have collected a series of research papers, chronologically located between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, of well-known specialists that present their reflections to us on the close links between migration and personal documents." --back cover.
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