From Sicily to Elizabeth Street: Housing and Social Change Among Italian Immigrants, 1880-1930
by Donna R. Gabaccia
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For many immigrants, the move from Sicily to a New York tenement was accompanied by rapid, significant, and often surprisingly satisfactory changes in a wide variety of social relationships. Many of these changes can be traced to the influence of a changing housing environment.Tags
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Donna R. Gabaccia is Charles H. Stone Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
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- Canonical title
- From Sicily to Elizabeth Street: Housing and Social Change Among Italian Immigrants, 1880-1930
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA; Sicily, Italy
- Original language
- English
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 305.8 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups
- LCC
- F128.9 .I8 .G32 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history New York
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