Summary

{{rc.info.holds}} on this title.

Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	JV6451 .B76 2013		AVAILABLE

Author	Brooks, Joanna, 1971-
Title	Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants / Joanna Brooks.
OCLC	816563870
ISBN	9780816681259 (hc : alk. paper)
	0816681252 (hc : alk. paper)
Publisher	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Description	ix, 213 pages ; 23 cm
LC Subject heading/s	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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

{{rc.info.title}}