Peasant Maids, City Women
From the European Countryside to Urban America
From the 1850s to the 1920s, women were 30 to 40 percent of all immigrants to the United States and their migration experiences were shaped by similar social, economic, demographic, and cultural forces. In Peasant Maids, City Women, a truly intercultural project, a team of historians follows several groups of women from rural Europe to the bustling streets of Chicago. Focusing on Germans, Irish, Swedes, and Poles-the four largest foreign-born ethnic groups in the city around 1900-the authors analyze the origins of the immigrants and chart how their lives changed, and explore how immigrant women shaped the urbanization process, creating vibran…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5017-2554-8
- EAN: 9781501725548
- Produktnummer: 32475549
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Abbildungen: 15 halftones, 2 maps, 28 tables
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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edited by Christiane Harzig
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