Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth CenturyNYU Press, 2006 - 422 pages 2008 United States Postal System’s Rita Lloyd Moroney Award |
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... Migrations to the United States,” IMIS-Beiträge 15 (2000): 31–53. Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, University of Osnabrück, Germany. Introduction Letters and Immigrants The Abiding Significance of Personal ...
... migration. What we know less about is what has been jeopardized or lost in pursuit of the fulfillment of this project. Immigrants have always risked a radical rupture of the self, a break in their understandings of who they are. We ...
... migration have intensively analyzed these dynamic new or newly reconstituted bonds, the formation of which for immigrants has been an important goal, at times parallel to and at other times intersecting with the search for opportunity.7 ...
... Migration to America (1991), which have set high standards for excellence in the tasks of editing and contextualizing immigrant letters.16 In addition to the efforts to remove bogus letters from the research for this study and to come ...
... migration put in sharp relief for all immigrants such questions as, “Who am I?” and “What is the relationship between the person I was in my homeland, and the person I am now in North America?”18 It is doubtful that these questions were ...
Table des matières
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3 Writing with a Purpose | 92 |
4 Using Postal Systems | 140 |
5 Establishing Voice Theme and Rhythm | 162 |
6 When Correspondence Wanes | 201 |
7 Thomas Spencer Niblock | 230 |
8 Catherine Grayston Bond | 257 |
9 Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald | 281 |
10 Dr Thomas Steel | 309 |
Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories Consulted | 337 |
Notes | 339 |
Collections of Letters Consulted | 399 |
Index | 403 |