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Author:

Greene, Victor R.

Title:

A singing ambivalence : American immigrants between old world and new, 1830-1930 / Victor Greene.

Publisher:

Kent State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xxvii, 215 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Immigrants--United States--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
United States--History and criticism.--Songs and music--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and index. SAU copy: Gift for the Timothy Walch Collection of Irish and Catholic Americana.

Contents:

The Irish : exploited exiles -- The Germans : "Kultur" and complexity -- The Scandinavians and Finns : natural longings -- The Eastern European Jews : migration and the family -- The Italians : uncertain followers of Columbus -- The Poles and Hungarians : industrial hardships -- The Chinese : struggle on "Gold Mountain" -- The Mexicans : the "hero" as anti-American.

ISBN:

9780873387941 (pbk.: alk. paper)
0873387945 (pbk.: alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53223538

LCCN:

2003022253

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)