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NY, Knopf, 1980. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 308 p.; 21.5 cm. The author's investigations of the males of her family and what it was like to leave China and live in California. Stock# 31,762. Vg/ dj vg, Book club.
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China Men.
by Kingston, Maxine Hong.
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A Daughter of the Samurai.
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Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1934. Hard Cover. xvii, 314 p., plates; 21.5 cm. "How a daughter of feudal Japan, living hundreds of years in one generation,became a modern American." Stock# 31,769. Vg, covers soiled/ no dj.
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An Echo in My Blood: The Search for a Family's Hidden Past.
by Weisman, Alan.
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San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1999.. 3 p.l., 426 p. Born in Minneapolis of Russian Jewish immigrants, the journalist author "discovers a universal reality that all immigrant families, in order to survive in a new world, must create protective myths." This book delves into the author's concerns for Latin America, and the failed War on Drugs; on ecology and environmental degradation and Bush I's lack of concern for it; his father's service in the 30th Infantry, 3rd Division in World War II; of pursuing the question of his grandfather's murder in Russia; and many other subjects. Fine except for a Library of Congress surplus stamp on the flyleaf. Stock #101,289. Autobiography
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Encyclopedia of American History. Bicentennial Edition.
by Morris, Richard Brandon, Henry Steele Commager, Jeffrey B. Morris, editors.
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Sections: Origina Peopling of the Americas; Era of Exploration; Founding of the English Colonies 1578-1732; Colonies & the Empire 1624-1775; Era of the American Revolution 1976-89; Erarly National & Antebellum Periods 1789-1860; Civil War & Reconstruction 1861-77; Domestic Issues from Hayer to Wilson 1878-1918; U.S. in World Affairs 1866-1918; America between two World Wars 1919-39; U.S. in WWII; U.S. & Balance of World Power 1945-74; Domestic Issues & National Politics from Truman to Nixon 1945-74; Presidents & their Cabinets; Party Strength in Congress; Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court; Declaration of Independence; Constitution of the U.S. Section 2, Topical Chronology: Expansion of the Nation; Population, Immigration & Ethnic Stocks; Leading Supreme Court Decisions; American Economy; Science, Invention, & Technology; Thought & Culture; Mass Media; Five Hundred Notable Americans; index. xiv, 1245 pages; dust jacket slightly worn, mild shelfwear; Good+. Stock#ofc0360.
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An Ethnic At Large: A Memoir of America in the Thirties and Forties / by Jerre Mangione
by Mangione, Jerre Gerlando, 1909-1998
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New York , Putnam's Sons [c1978].. Hard Cover. 378 p., index,[8] leaves of plates. 22.5 cm. The son of immigrants from Sicily to Rochester, New York, was an active anti-fascist and writer in the WPA program. Stock # 101,090x. Vg/ dj good. Amother copy has back panel of dj damaged. Autobiography, American history, social life Italian Americans
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The Italian Experience in the United States.
by Tomasi, Silvano M. & Madeline H. Engel, editors.
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Staten Island, Center for Migration Studies [c1970]. Soft Cover. Includes Monticelli, Italian Emigration: Basic Characteristics and Trends with Special Reference to the Post-War Years; Velikonja, Italian Immigrants in the United States in the Sixties; Iorizzo, The Padrone and Immigrant Distribution; Nelli, Italians in Urban America; Baily, Italians and Organized Labor in the United States and Argentina, 1880-1910; Matthews, The Role of the Public School in the Assimilation of the Italian Immigrant Child in New York City, 1900-1914; LaGumina, Case Studies of Ethnicity and Italo-American Politicians; Tomasi, The Ethnic Church and the Integration of Italian Immigrants in the United States; Russo, Three Generations of Italians in New York City: Their Religious Acculturation; Cerase, Nostalgia or Disenchantment: Considerations on Return Migration. x, 239 p., tables, 21.5 cm.; paper; red-ink underlining & notes, else good. 31580.
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Italian Americans and Federal Hill: Rhode Island's Little Italy.
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Providence, Seven Fishes Productions, 2006. Soft Cover. 1 p.l., viii, 175 p., illus.; 19 cm. Meant to complement and augment some of the subjects covered in the documentary film "Italian Americans and Federal Hill" --Intro. ISBN (10): 0978751590. Stock#47367. Vg / soft cover.
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The Italian-American Novel. A Document of the Interaction of Two Cultures.: Foreword by Mario Pei.
by Green, Rose Basile.
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Autobiographical Accounts of the Early Italian Immigrants; The Emergence of the Italian-American Novel; Contemporary Italian-American Novelists; Bibliography, Index. 415 pages; dust jacket scuffed; Good+. Stock#ofc0358.
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The Italian-American Experience: an Annotated and Classified Bibliographical Guide.
by Cordasco, Francesco, 1920--2001
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NY, Burt Franklin [1974]. series: Burt Franklin Ethnic Bibliographical Guides. With selected publications [Bulletins 6, 7, 8] of the Casa Italiana Educational Bureau (The Casa Italiana Educational Bureau, its purpose and program, by Leonard Covello, pages [99]-104). The Italians in America, a brief survey of a sociological research program of Italo-American communities by Leonard Covello, pages [105]-125; Italian population in New York by William B. Shedd, pages [127]-155; Occupational trends of Italians in New York City by John J. D'Alesandre, pages [157]-169. Hard Cover. xiv, 179 pages, index, maps, charts, frontispiece; dust jacket; Very Good. Stock#32412x (+house).
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language.
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NY, Morrow, ©1994. Why do immigrants struggle with a new language, only to have their fluent children ridicule their grammatical errors? Why can't computers converse with us? ISBN (10): ISBN: 0688121411. Hard Cover. 494 pages, illus.; 25 cm. Very Good; inscription. Stock#47070.
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Paul Robeson by Martin Bauml Duberman
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London: Bodley Head, 1989. Hard Cover. xiii, 804 p., [48] p. of plates, illus.; 25 cm. Passionate and enormously talented, Paul Robeson lived one of the great lives of the twentieth century. Martin Duberman's classic biography is a monumental and powerfully affecting portrait of one of this century's most notable performers, political radicals, and champions of racial equality." ISBN (10): 0370305752. Sock#46996. Vg / dj vg.
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Pioneer Women. Voices from the Kansas Frontier. Introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Touchstone/Simon & Schuster [c1981; First Touchstone Edition 1982]. Soft Cover. 319 p., plates (77 photos), portrait front.; 23.5 cm. Contents include To the Stars Through the Wilderness: The Journey; Homes of Puncheon, Homes of Sod: The Settlement; Aprons and Plows: Daily Life on the Prairie; Days of Valor: Fighting the Wild; Days of Darkness: Fighting the Elements; The Clashing of Cultures: Indians; A Social People, A Prairie Childhood, Classrooms and Schoolmarms, The Frontier Church, The Frontier Town, The Cow Town, The Immigrant Community: Victoria; The Wounds of War; The Woman Crusaders: Temperance and Suffrage. Bibliography, p. 305-308. Pictorial paper covers; minor wear; VG. stock#45326 pzc.
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The Urban Villagers. Group and Class in the life of Italian-Americans.
by Gans, Herbert J. Lindemann, Erich.
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NY, Free Press [1965]. Hard Cover. Foreword by Erich Lindemann. 367 p.,plates, indexes; 21.5 cm. Refers to immigrants, not only Italians, from rural areas who settle in cities in the U.S. and adapt their non-urban cultures to the cities. Stock# 32,675x. VG/ no dj.. Another copy, paper; three lines of ink underlining on p. 4; VG, $12.50.
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The William and Mary Quarterly, July 1973. Third Series, Vol. XXX no. 1.: A Magazine of Early American History.
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Williamsburg, Va., 1973. Periodical. Includes Lester Cappon, American Historical Editors before Jared Sparks; William Willingham, Deference Democracy & Town Government in Windham, Connecticut, 1775 to 1687; Owen Ireland, Ethnic-Religious Dimension of Pennsylvania Politics, 1778-1779; Notes & Documents (George Donne's 'Virginia Reviewed': A 1638 Plan To Reform Colonial Society; The Cases of Ferdinand & Elizabeth Key: A Note on the Status of Blacks in 17th-Century Virginia; Douglas Stenerson, An Anglican Critique of the Early Phase of the Great Awakening in New England: A Letter by Timothy Cutler; Trivia; book reviews. Pages 375-546; 23.5 cm.; printed wrappers; minor wear & soiling; Good.
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Yankee Yorkshirewomen. Illustrated by Portia S. Thompson.
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Memoir of familial and working connections between Yorkshire in England and the Rhode Island mills. 94 pages, illus.; Very Good. Stock#ofc0059.
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