Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants

Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants / Joanna Brooks.

Author/creator	Brooks, Joanna, 1971-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Description	ix, 213 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)	British Americans--History --17th century. British Americans--History --18th century. Immigrants--United States --History --17th century. Immigrants--United States --History --18th century. Folk music--United States --History. Folk music--Great Britain --History. United States--Emigration and immigration --History --17th century. United States--Emigration and immigration --History --18th century. Great Britain--Emigration and immigration --History --17th century. Great Britain--Emigration and immigration --History --18th century.

Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2012049538
ISBN	9780816681259 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0816681252 (hbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	JV6451 .B76 2013	✔ Available	Place Hold