Why we left [electronic resource] : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants / Joanna Brooks.
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TextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (ix, 213 pages )ISBN: - 9780816684069
- 0816684065
- 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
- Folk music -- Great Britain -- History
- Folk music -- United States -- History
- Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 17th century
- British Americans -- History -- 18th century
- British Americans -- History -- 17th century
- 305.9/06912097309032 23
- JV6451 .B76 2013
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.
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