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Why we left

Brooks, Joanna, 1971-

Why we left untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants / [electronic resource] : Joanna Brooks. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (ix, 213 pages )

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : brave men run -- No land of opportunity : folk ballads and the story of why we left -- Murder the brother who killed the tree : fratricide and the story of deforestation -- Sisters and a beaver hat : desire and the story of colonial commodity culture -- To sink it in the lonesome sea : betrayal and the story of indentured servitude -- Seduction of the house carpenter's wife: abandonment and the story of colonial -- Migration -- Epilogue : ballad of the laboring poor.

9780816684069 0816684065


Folk music--History.--Great Britain
Folk music--History.--United States
Immigrants--History--United States--18th century.
Immigrants--History--United States--17th century.
British Americans--History--18th century.
British Americans--History--17th century.


Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History--18th century.
Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History--17th century.
United States--Emigration and immigration--History--18th century.
United States--Emigration and immigration--History--17th century.


Electronic books.

JV6451 / .B76 2013

305.9/06912097309032