Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants
by Joanna Brooks
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Joanna Brooks reveals the harsh realities behind seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration-and dismantles the idea that these immigrants were drawn to America as a land of opportunity. Brooks follows American folk ballads back across the Atlantic, uncovering an archaeology of the worldviews of America's earliest immigrants and a haunting historical perspective on the ancestors we thought we knew.Tags
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Joanna Brooks is a national voice on Mormon life and polities, an award-winning scholar of religion and American culture, and the author or editor of five books. She has been featured on American Public Media's On Being, NPR's All Things Considered, NPR's Talk of the Nation, Interfaith Voices, Radio West, and BBC's Americana, and in the New York show more Times, the Washing-ton Post, the CNN Belief Blog, and the Huffington Post. She is a columnist for the online magazine ReligionDispatches and offers answers to seekers of all stripes at her own website, Askmormongirl.com. Follow @askmormongirl on Twitter or visit her at joannabrooks.org. show less
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- Original publication date
- 2013
- People/Characters
- Horton Barker; Sir Walter Raleigh; Richard Hakluyt; Keith Wrightson
- Epigraph
- They crossed country
that would lay beyond memory.
Their cells
would no longer bother
to remember.
Memory
was not to be trusted.
Aimlessly
they crossed memory.
--SIMON ORTIZ (Acoma), from Sand Cr... (show all)eek - First words
- Introduction
Brave Men Run
Years ago, I had the tremendous fortune of studying with Paula Gunn Allen, a foundational scholar of American Indian literature and a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In the words of Woody Guthrie, the stories I've told in these pages are here for anyone going down the road feeling bad.
- Blurbers
- Rediker, Marcus; McGovern, Charles
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Music, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 305.9 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity People by occupation and miscellaneous social statuses
- LCC
- JV6451 .B76 — Political Science Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration Colonies and colonization. Emigration and Emigration and immigration. International United States
- BISAC
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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