Peasant Maids, City Women: Economies and Institutions in the Middle East

by Monika Blaschke, Margareta Matovic, Christiane Harzig

Book Overview

From the 1850s to the 1920s, women were 30 to 40 percent of all immigrants to the United States and their migration experiences were shaped by similar social, economic, demographic, and cultural forces. In Peasant Maids, City Women, a truly intercultural project, a team of historians follows several groups of women from rural Europe to the bustling streets of Chicago. Focusing on Germans, Irish, Swedes, and Poles--the four largest foreign-born...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801483956
• ISBN13: 9780801483950
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher