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Zusatztext "A marvelous history of people fundamental to the American mosaic! a history that is thoughtful! honest! passionate! and right for our times. The Routledge History of Italian Americans traces Italian immigrants from a newly unified nation that could not hold its people to thoroughly integrated Americans at all levels of society. It's essential for understanding Americans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." Nell Irvin Painter! Edwards Professor of American History! Emerita! at Princeton University and author of The History of White People"Wide-ranging! with chapters that cover 500 years of history while addressing everything from politics! economy! culture! race! class! and gender to work! radicalism! religion! residence and everyday life! The Routledge History of Italian Americans belongs on the shelf of every scholar of Italian America and in every library serving Italian-Americans. Specialists will find enough of the latest research! ?written by prominent scholars! to satisfy their very specific needs while newcomers to the topic can gain from the contributors' obvious awareness of the needs of general readers in search of 'the big picture.' "Donna Gabaccia! University of Toronto and author of Italy's Many Diasporas "The Routledge History of ltalianAmericans is an important guideto Italian American life! identity! andculture fora newmillennium." Maddalena Marinari! Gustavus Adolphus College Informationen zum Autor William J. Connell is Professor and LaMotta Chair of History at Seton Hall University. Stanislao G. Pugliese is Professor of modern European history and the Queensboro UNICO Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University. Zusammenfassung The Routledge History of Italian Americans is a new multi-authored history of one of the largest ethnic groups in America, bringing together the best and brightest scholars and critics to create a narrative of the trials and triumphs of Italians in America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A New History for a New Millennium William J. Connell Part I - Explorations and Foundations 1) Italians in the Early Atlantic World William J. Connell 2) From the Pilgrim Fathers to the Founding Fathers: Italy and America Edoardo Tortarolo 3) When They Were Few: Italians in America, 1800-1850 John Paul Russo 4) America’s Garibaldi: The United States and Italian Unification Don H. Doyle 5) Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in Nineteenth-Century America Dennis Looney Part II - The Great Migration and Creating Little Italies 6) Why Italians Left Italy: The Physics and Politics of Migration, 1870-1920 Maddalena Tirabassi 7) The Silence of the Atlantians: Contact, Conflict, Consolidation (1880-1913) Peter Carravetta 8) The Little Italies of the Early 1900s: From the Reports of Amy Bernardy Maddalena Tirabassi 9) Interpreting Little Italies: Ethnicity as an Accident of Geography Maria Susanna Garroni 10) Culture and Identity on the Table: Italian American Food as Social History Simone Cinotto 11) Italian Americans and Their Religious Experience Richard N. Juliani 12) Italian Americans and Race During the Era of Mass Immigration Peter G. Vellon 13) Discrimination, Prejudice and Italian American History Salvatore J. LaGumina 14) The Languages of Italian Americans Nancy C. Carnevale 15) Italian American Book Publishing and Book Selling James J. Periconi 16) From Margins to Vanguard to Mainstream: Italian Americans and the Labor Movement Marcella Bencivenni 17) The Sacco and Vanzetti Case and the Psychology of Political Vio...
