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1st ed. (1971)

{en} Luciano J. Iorizzo - Salvatore Mondello, eds. The Italian Americans. 2nd rev. ed. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1980. <1st ed. 1971; 3rd ed. 2006>.

Abstract

3rd ed. (2006)

"Surveys Italian immigrants and their descendants on farms, in cities, and in small towns from the colonial period to the present."--

Contents

Introduction: Prelude to emigration -- Italian adventurers and pioneers -- Prelude to the mass migration: the north Italians -- The great migration: the coming of the south Italians -- The great fear -- Embattled Braccianti -- Uneasy allies: progressive reformers and the Italians in urban America -- New World contadini -- Ethnic leaders: the padroni in upstate New York -- Crime and the Italian-Americans -- The religious encounter -- Italian-American fascism -- Epilogue.