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020			_a9780805791099
020			_a0805791094
035			_a(KOHALIB)isbn-9780805791099
040			_aKOHALIB _beng _erda _cKOHALIB
082	0	4	_a973.04034 _223
100	1		_aStave, Bruce M.
245	1	0	_aFrom the old country : _ban oral history of European migration to America / _cBruce M. Stave.
264		1	_aNew York : _bTwayne, _c1994.
300			_a281 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aFor nearly a century, the symbol of the American "melting pot" - namely that all cultures are transformed into a single American identity - has enjoyed considerable popularity. Bruce M. Stave and John F. Sutherland offer the reader an opportunity to explore and question this and other concepts in From the Old Country, an oral history comprising the voices of the early European immigrants - the Irish, Scandinavians, Italians, Jews, Poles, Slavs, and others - who came to America by the millions between the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. The authors, both practicing oral historians, have compiled their interviews and others conducted by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s. This resulting blend is a new and enlightening, sometimes disturbing, perspective on the forefathers and foremothers who gave so much to the country that they have adopted as their own. Their interviews, combined with those of the WPA, enable the authors to offer the reader a perspective of at least three generations of immigrant experience. From the Old Country presents the concept that while there were, and are, many common experiences encountered by the American immigrant, there are also experiences that are not shared by all ethnic groups and individuals.
590			_aInventory: Single copy, entry 375; recorded quantity 1; damaged N/A
650		4	_aEmigration and Immigration
650		4	_aEthnic Relations
650		4	_aEuropean Americans
650		4	_aHistory
650		4	_aImmigrants
650		4	_aInterviews
650		4	_aImmigranten
650		4	_aEuropeans, United States
942			_cBOOK _2ddc
999			_c368 _d368