Author: Vilhelm MobergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Emigrants
Author: Vilhelm MobergThe Emigrants
Author: W. G. SebaldPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811221296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school teacher, and Great Uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in their footsteps, the narrator retraces routes of exile which lead from Lithuania to London, from Munich to Manchester, from the South German provinces to Switzerland, France, New York, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. Along with memories, documents, and diaries of the Holocaust, he collects photographs—the enigmatic snapshots which stud The Emigrants and bring to mind family photo albums. Sebald combines precise documentary with fictional motifs, and as he puts the question to realism, the four stories merge into one unfathomable requiem.
Unto a Good Land
Author: Vilhelm MobergThe Emigrants
Author: George LammingPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people
Emigrant Nation
Author: Mark I. ChoatePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674027848
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Between 1880 and 1915, thirteen million Italians left their homeland, launching the largest emigration from any country in recorded world history. As the young Italian state struggled to adapt to the exodus, it pioneered the establishment of a “global nation”—an Italy abroad cemented by ties of culture, religion, ethnicity, and economics. In this wide-ranging work, Mark Choate examines the relationship between the Italian emigrants, their new communities, and their home country. The state maintained that emigrants were linked to Italy and to one another through a shared culture. Officials established a variety of programs to coordinate Italian communities worldwide. They fostered identity through schools, athletic groups, the Dante Alighieri Society, the Italian Geographic Society, the Catholic Church, Chambers of Commerce, and special banks to handle emigrant remittances. But the projects aimed at binding Italians together also raised intense debates over priorities and the emigrants’ best interests. Did encouraging loyalty to Italy make the emigrants less successful at integrating? Were funds better spent on supporting the home nation rather than sustaining overseas connections? In its probing discussion of immigrant culture, transnational identities, and international politics, this fascinating book not only narrates the grand story of Italian emigration but also provides important background to immigration debates that continue to this day.
The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California
Author: Lansford Warren HastingsPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1557092451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey. In addition, because Hastings' shortcut route through the Rockies produced such tragedy, the War Department commissioned The Prairie Traveler.
A Nation of Emigrants
Author: David FitzGeraldPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520942479
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflow, the Mexican state now emphasizes voluntary ties, dual nationality, and rights over obligations. In this groundbreaking book, David Fitzgerald examines a region of Mexico whose citizens have been migrating to the United States for more than a century. He finds that emigrant citizenship does not signal the decline of the nation-state but does lead to a new form of citizenship, and that bureaucratic efforts to manage emigration and its effects are based on the membership model of the Catholic Church.
The Settlers
Author: Vilhelm MobergPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873517156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The second book in Moberg's classic Emigrant Novels series.
Emigrants and Exiles
Author: Kerby A. MillerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780195051872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.
The Emigrants
Author: Sławomir MrożekPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573640322
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
This important play from one of Poland's most prominent playwrights has had successful stagings in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., and New York. It takes place on a New Year's Eve in an unnamed country in the home of two immigrants. One is a political exile, an intellectual who gets his money from a mysterious source. The other is a ditch digger who is saving money to bring over his family.