ISBN:
9781487504564
,
148750456X
Language:
English
Pages:
xxvii, 519 Seiten
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Toronto Italian studies
Series Statement:
Goggio publication series
DDC:
304.80945
Keywords:
Italians History 18th century
;
Italians History 19th century
;
Italy Emigration and immigration 18th century
;
History
;
Italy Emigration and immigration 19th century
;
History
;
North America Emigration and immigration 18th century
;
History
;
North America Emigration and immigration 19th century
;
History
;
Nordamerika
;
Italien
;
Handel
;
Identität
;
Migration
;
Katholizismus
;
Geschichte 1763-1846
Abstract:
"Long before the mid-nineteenth century, hundreds, if not thousands of people were constantly moving between the United States and British North America and Leghorn, Genoa, Naples, Rome, Sicily, Piedmont, Lombardy, Venice and Trieste. Predominantly traders, sailors, transient workers, Catholic priests and seminarians, this group relied on the exchange of goods across the Atlantic to solidify transatlantic relations; during this period, stories about the New World passed between travellers through word of mouth and letter writing. Based on a vast and in-depth examination of newly-found personal and commercial correspondence, Blurred Nationalities is a major addition to the study of transatlantic mobility and migration between North America and the Italian peninsula. Blurred Nationalities challenges the idea that the level of national origin, for instance, Italianness, comprises the most only significant feature of this group's identity, revealing the multifaceted personalities of the people involved in these exchanges."--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 387-445. Index
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