The Italian American Experience in New Haven

by Anthony V. Riccio

Using interviews and photographs, Anthony Riccio provides a vital supplement to our understanding of the Italian immigrant experience in the United States. In conversations around kitchen tables and in social clubs, members of New Haven's Italian American community evoke the rhythms of the streets and the pulse of life in the old ethnic neighborhoods. They describe the events that shaped the twentieth century--the Spanish Flu pandemic, the Great Depression,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791467732
• ISBN13: 9780791467732
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.7" x 11.1"