Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants / Joanna Brooks.

Author/creator Brooks, Joanna, 1971-
Format Book
PublicationMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Descriptionix, 213 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
British Americans--History. --17th century.
British Americans--History. --18th century.
Immigrants--United States. --History. --17th century.
Immigrants--United States. --History. --18th century.
Folk music--United States. --History.
Folk music--Great Britain. --History.
United States--Emigration and immigration. --History. --17th century.
United States--Emigration and immigration. --History. --18th century.
Great Britain--Emigration and immigration. --History. --17th century.
Great Britain--Emigration and immigration. --History. --18th century.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012049538
ISBN9780816681259 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0816681252 (hbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks JV6451 .B76 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold