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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... Social Policy at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), which has provided me with funds to sustain my research and a forum for the presentation of my ideas before extraordinarily intelligent and helpful colleagues, and of the help of Jane ...
... social class and region, growing numbers of European immigrants, like those leaving Britain for Canada and the United States who form the basis for this work, possessed some literacy skills. Some wrote with considerable technical ...
... social respectability. These largely material goals typically are the immigrant's first project, for they are the source of what motivates the lifetransforming decision to uproot oneself. Just as is the case today, in the nineteenth ...
... social networks, neighborhood, and ethnic groups, historians of international migration have intensively analyzed these dynamic new or newly reconstituted bonds, the formation of which for immigrants has been an important goal, at times ...
... social networks and formal associations helped considerably to appease this hunger for continuity. Ethnicity provides a fictive kinship, an alternative genealogy to one's actual family and community history of intimate relations. In the ...
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 |