Search Results: Immigration from The Owl at the Bridge

NY, Knopf, 1980. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 308 p.; 21.5 cm. The author's investigations of the males of her family and what it was like to leave China and live in California. Stock# 31,762. Vg/ dj vg, Book club.

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1939]. Hard Cover. 311 p.; 21 cm. '...theatrical presentation of... Italian-American construction workers in New York City prior to the 1940s. Autobiographical... creatively illumined by poetic speech... dramatizing [the] exploited immigrant worker... luxuriant dialogue... conveys robust Italian conversation and lyrical colloquialism through natural American speech.' Green, The Italian American Novel, pp. 151-52. Stock#33462. Good+/ no dj.

Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1934. Hard Cover. xvii, 314 p., plates; 21.5 cm. "How a daughter of feudal Japan, living hundreds of years in one generation,became a modern American." Stock# 31,769. Vg, covers soiled/ no dj.

San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1999.. 3 p.l., 426 p. Born in Minneapolis of Russian Jewish immigrants, the journalist author "discovers a universal reality that all immigrant families, in order to survive in a new world, must create protective myths." This book delves into the author's concerns for Latin America, and the failed War on Drugs; on ecology and environmental degradation and Bush I's lack of concern for it; his father's service in the 30th Infantry, 3rd Division in World War II; of pursuing the question of his grandfather's murder in Russia; and many other subjects. Fine except for a Library of Congress surplus stamp on the flyleaf. Stock #101,289. Autobiography

Sections: Origina Peopling of the Americas; Era of Exploration; Founding of the English Colonies 1578-1732; Colonies & the Empire 1624-1775; Era of the American Revolution 1976-89; Erarly National & Antebellum Periods 1789-1860; Civil War & Reconstruction 1861-77; Domestic Issues from Hayer to Wilson 1878-1918; U.S. in World Affairs 1866-1918; America between two World Wars 1919-39; U.S. in WWII; U.S. & Balance of World Power 1945-74; Domestic Issues & National Politics from Truman to Nixon 1945-74; Presidents & their Cabinets; Party Strength in Congress; Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court; Declaration of Independence; Constitution of the U.S. Section 2, Topical Chronology: Expansion of the Nation; Population, Immigration & Ethnic Stocks; Leading Supreme Court Decisions; American Economy; Science, Invention, & Technology; Thought & Culture; Mass Media; Five Hundred Notable Americans; index. xiv, 1245 pages; dust jacket slightly worn, mild shelfwear; Good+. Stock#ofc0360.

New York , Putnam's Sons [c1978].. Hard Cover. 378 p., index,[8] leaves of plates. 22.5 cm. The son of immigrants from Sicily to Rochester, New York, was an active anti-fascist and writer in the WPA program. Stock # 101,090x. Vg/ dj good. Amother copy has back panel of dj damaged. Autobiography, American history, social life Italian Americans

Jamestown, R.I. The Philomenian Library, 1980. Soft Cover. 233 pages, illus., facsims., map, ports., 28 cm. Reprinted from typescript. Portuguse from the Azores came to Conanicut as fishermen and farmers and many are still at it. Stock#33322. Vg/ spiral binding.

Providence, URI Extension, 1977. Periodical. 55 p. illus., 25.5 cm.Title from cover. An issue of Mirror, a student quarterly. Interviews with seven women who immigrated to Rhode Island when yery young--two Italian, two Jewish, an Armenian, Pole, and French Canadian--by students in an URI program. Stock# 31,031.Vg/ wrappers.

Providence, Seven Fishes Productions, 2006. Soft Cover. 1 p.l., viii, 175 p., illus.; 19 cm. Meant to complement and augment some of the subjects covered in the documentary film "Italian Americans and Federal Hill" --Intro. ISBN (10): 0978751590. Stock#47367. Vg / soft cover.

Staten Island, Center for Migration Studies [c1970]. Soft Cover. Includes Monticelli, Italian Emigration: Basic Characteristics and Trends with Special Reference to the Post-War Years; Velikonja, Italian Immigrants in the United States in the Sixties; Iorizzo, The Padrone and Immigrant Distribution; Nelli, Italians in Urban America; Baily, Italians and Organized Labor in the United States and Argentina, 1880-1910; Matthews, The Role of the Public School in the Assimilation of the Italian Immigrant Child in New York City, 1900-1914; LaGumina, Case Studies of Ethnicity and Italo-American Politicians; Tomasi, The Ethnic Church and the Integration of Italian Immigrants in the United States; Russo, Three Generations of Italians in New York City: Their Religious Acculturation; Cerase, Nostalgia or Disenchantment: Considerations on Return Migration. x, 239 p., tables, 21.5 cm.; paper; red-ink underlining & notes, else good. 31580.

Autobiographical Accounts of the Early Italian Immigrants; The Emergence of the Italian-American Novel; Contemporary Italian-American Novelists; Bibliography, Index. 415 pages; dust jacket scuffed; Good+. Stock#ofc0358.

NY, Burt Franklin [1974]. series: Burt Franklin Ethnic Bibliographical Guides. With selected publications [Bulletins 6, 7, 8] of the Casa Italiana Educational Bureau (The Casa Italiana Educational Bureau, its purpose and program, by Leonard Covello, pages [99]-104). The Italians in America, a brief survey of a sociological research program of Italo-American communities by Leonard Covello, pages [105]-125; Italian population in New York by William B. Shedd, pages [127]-155; Occupational trends of Italians in New York City by John J. D'Alesandre, pages [157]-169. Hard Cover. xiv, 179 pages, index, maps, charts, frontispiece; dust jacket; Very Good. Stock#32412x (+house).

Boston, Ausonia, 1958.. Soft Cover. 16 p.; 23 cm. Author's presentation inscription inside cover; Stock# 39,338. Fine/ paper. United States, history, immigration, social life.

NY, Morrow, ©1994. Why do immigrants struggle with a new language, only to have their fluent children ridicule their grammatical errors? Why can't computers converse with us? ISBN (10): ISBN: 0688121411. Hard Cover. 494 pages, illus.; 25 cm. Very Good; inscription. Stock#47070.

NY, Columbia University Press, 1981. Hard Cover. xiii, 309 p.; 21 cm. Reprint; originally published Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1943. "Depicts the lives of Sicilian immigrants in Rochester, New York, in the first half of the twentieth century as their customs blend and clash with those of their adopted country." ISBN (10): 0231053304. Good+, an Italian American reader has made some notes / no dj. Stock#46889.

Providnce, Society of Colonial Dames, 1914. Twelve stories of Rhode Island history written for children-- particularly children of recent immigrants, as the introduction points out. Hard Cover. 204, [2] pages, illustrations, 19.5 cm. Good/ covers bumped & worn, no dust jacket. Stock#30989.

London: Bodley Head, 1989. Hard Cover. xiii, 804 p., [48] p. of plates, illus.; 25 cm. Passionate and enormously talented, Paul Robeson lived one of the great lives of the twentieth century. Martin Duberman's classic biography is a monumental and powerfully affecting portrait of one of this century's most notable performers, political radicals, and champions of racial equality." ISBN (10): 0370305752. Sock#46996. Vg / dj vg.

Touchstone/Simon & Schuster [c1981; First Touchstone Edition 1982]. Soft Cover. 319 p., plates (77 photos), portrait front.; 23.5 cm. Contents include To the Stars Through the Wilderness: The Journey; Homes of Puncheon, Homes of Sod: The Settlement; Aprons and Plows: Daily Life on the Prairie; Days of Valor: Fighting the Wild; Days of Darkness: Fighting the Elements; The Clashing of Cultures: Indians; A Social People, A Prairie Childhood, Classrooms and Schoolmarms, The Frontier Church, The Frontier Town, The Cow Town, The Immigrant Community: Victoria; The Wounds of War; The Woman Crusaders: Temperance and Suffrage. Bibliography, p. 305-308. Pictorial paper covers; minor wear; VG. stock#45326 pzc.

NY, Free Press [1965]. Hard Cover. Foreword by Erich Lindemann. 367 p.,plates, indexes; 21.5 cm. Refers to immigrants, not only Italians, from rural areas who settle in cities in the U.S. and adapt their non-urban cultures to the cities. Stock# 32,675x. VG/ no dj.. Another copy, paper; three lines of ink underlining on p. 4; VG, $12.50.

Williamsburg, Va., 1973. Periodical. Includes Lester Cappon, American Historical Editors before Jared Sparks; William Willingham, Deference Democracy & Town Government in Windham, Connecticut, 1775 to 1687; Owen Ireland, Ethnic-Religious Dimension of Pennsylvania Politics, 1778-1779; Notes & Documents (George Donne's 'Virginia Reviewed': A 1638 Plan To Reform Colonial Society; The Cases of Ferdinand & Elizabeth Key: A Note on the Status of Blacks in 17th-Century Virginia; Douglas Stenerson, An Anglican Critique of the Early Phase of the Great Awakening in New England: A Letter by Timothy Cutler; Trivia; book reviews. Pages 375-546; 23.5 cm.; printed wrappers; minor wear & soiling; Good.