Author : Suzanne Russo Adams
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 161858989X
For millions of Americans, home means Italy, where their roots started years ago. In Finding Your Italian Ancestors, you'll discover the tools you need to trace your ancestors back to the homeland. Learn how and where to find records in the United States and Italy, get practical advice on deciphering those hard-to-read documents, and explore valuable online resources. The guide also includes maps, multiple glossaries, and an extensive bibliography.
Author : Peter J. Parish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 917 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1134261829
There are so many books on so many aspects of the history of the United States, offering such a wide variety of interpretations, that students, teachers, scholars, and librarians often need help and advice on how to find what they want. The Reader's Guide to American History is designed to meet that need by adopting a new and constructive approach to the appreciation of this rich historiography. Each of the 600 entries on topics in political, social and economic history describes and evaluates some 6 to 12 books on the topic, providing guidance to the reader on everything from broad surveys and interpretive works to specialized monographs. The entries are devoted to events and individuals, as well as broader themes, and are written by a team of well over 200 contributors, all scholars of American history.
Author : Jerre Mangione
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
The lives of millions of fellow Americans.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Columbus Day
ISBN :
Author : Giorgio Bertellini
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 0253221285
Giorgio Bertellini traces the origins of American cinema's century-long fascination with Italy and Italian immigrants to the popularity of the pre-photographic aesthetic—the picturesque. Once associated with landscape painting in northern Europe, the picturesque came to symbolize Mediterranean Europe through comforting views of distant landscapes and exotic characters. Taking its cue from a picturesque stage backdrop from The Godfather Part II, Italy in Early American Cinema shows how this aesthetic was transferred from 19th-century American painters to early 20th-century American filmmakers. Italy in Early American Cinema offers readings of early films that pay close attention to how landscape representations that were related to narrative settings and filmmaking locations conveyed distinct ideas about racial difference and national destiny.
Author : Aviva Ben-Ur
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0814725198
A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim settled in New York, establishing the leading Judeo-Spanish community outside the Ottoman Empire. With their distinct languages, cultures, and rituals, Sephardim and Arab-speaking Mizrahim were not readily recognized as Jews by their Ashkenazic coreligionists. At the same time, they forged alliances outside Jewish circles with Hispanics and Arabs, with whom they shared significant cultural and linguistic ties. The failure among Ashkenazic Jews to recognize Sephardim and Mizrahim as fellow Jews continues today. More often than not, these Jewish communities are simply absent from portrayals of American Jewry. Drawing on primary sources such as the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) press, archival documents, and oral histories, Sephardic Jews in America offers the first book-length academic treatment of their history in the United States, from 1654 to the present, focusing on the age of mass immigration.
Author : Anthony J. Hall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773530065
In a book that Naomi Klein says could "change the world," Anthony Hall shows that the globalization debate actually began in 1492.
Author : Dennis A. Connole
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1476675430
Immigrant American soldiers played an important, often underrated role in World War I. Those who were non-citizens had no obligation to participate in the war, though many volunteered. Due to language barriers that prevented them from receiving proper training, they were often given the most dangerous and dirty jobs. The impetus for this book was the story of Matthew Guerra (the author's great-uncle). He immigrated to America from Italy around age 12. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1918 and shipped to France, where he joined the 58th Infantry Regiment of the 4th "Ivy" Division and participated in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. Wounded in the Bois de Fays, the 22-year-old Guerra died in a field hospital.
Author : David M. Brownstone
Publisher : H. W. Wilson
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Focuses on who came and from where, why they came, the nature of their journeys, where they settled, and the many efforts to stop them. An overview, which includes extensive statistical data, places the process of immigration in a wide historical and global context.
Author : Melanie Holtz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1440349096
Discover your Italian roots! Say "ciao" to your Italian ancestors! This in-depth guide will walk you through the exciting journey of researching your Italian famiglia both here and in Italy. Inside, you'll find tips for every phase of Italian genealogy research, from identifying your immigrant ancestor and pinpointing his hometown to uncovering records of him in Italian archives. In this book, you'll find: • Basic information on starting your family history research, including how to trace your immigrant ancestor back to Italy • Strategies for uncovering genealogy records (including passenger lists, draft cards, and birth, marriage, and death records) from both the United States and Italy, with annotated sample records • Crash-course guides to Italian history, geography, and names • Helpful Italian genealogical word lists • Sample letters for requesting records from Italian archives Whether your ancestors hail from the island of Sicily or the hills of Piedmont, The Family Tree Italian Genealogy Guide will give you the tools you need to track your family in Italy.
