Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants

by Joanna Brooks

Book Overview

A grounded, tender, and mournful reckoning with the catastrophes that launched poor, white Anglos into their role as itinerant foot soldiers for modern imperialism--now in paperback with a new preface

Joanna Brooks's ancestors were among the early waves of emigrants to leave England for North America. For generations, they lived hardscrabble lives, eking out subsistence in one place after another as they continually moved west...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816681252
• ISBN13: 9780816681259
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"