Author : Joanna Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816681259
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Why We Left by : Joanna Brooks
Download or read book Why We Left written by Joanna Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joanna Brooks reveals the harsh realities behind seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration--and dismantles the idea that these immigrants were drawn to America as a land of opportunity. Brooks follows American folk ballads back across the Atlantic, uncovering an archaeology of the worldviews of America's earliest immigrants and a haunting historical perspective on the ancestors we thought we knew.