The Resource Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants, Joanna Brooks
Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants, Joanna Brooks
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- Summary
- "Joanna Brooks's ancestors were among the earliest waves of emigrants to leave England for North America. They lived hardscrabble lives for generations, eking out subsistence in one place after another as they moved forever westward in search of a new life. Why, Brooks wondered, did her people and countless other poor English subjects abandon their homeland to settle for such unremitting hardship? The question leads her on a journey into a largely obscured dimension of American history. With her family's background as a point of departure, Brooks brings to light the harsh realities behind seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration--and dismantles the long-cherished idea that these immigrants were drawn to America as a land of opportunity. American folk ballads provide a wealth of clues to the catastrophic contexts that propelled early English emigration to the Americas. Brooks follows these songs back across the Atlantic to find histories of economic displacement, environmental destruction, and social betrayal at the heart of the early Anglo-American migrant experience. The folk ballad "Edward," for instance, reveals the role of deforestation in the dislocation of early Anglo-American peasant immigrants; "Two Sisters" discloses the profound social destabilization unleashed by the advent of luxury goods in England; "The Golden Vanity" shows how common men and women viewed their own disposable position in England's imperial project; and "The House Carpenter's Wife" offers insights into the impact of economic instability and the colonial enterprise on women. From these often tragic ballads Brooks uncovers an archaeology of the worldviews of America's earliest immigrants, presenting a new and haunting historical perspective on the ancestors we thought we knew."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 213 pages
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780816681259
- Label
- Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants
- Title
- Why we left
- Title remainder
- untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants
- Statement of responsibility
- Joanna Brooks
- Subject
-
- British Americans -- History -- 18th century
- Folk music -- Great Britain -- History
- Folk music -- United States -- History
- Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 17th century
- British Americans -- History -- 17th century
- Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 17th century
- Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- United States -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 17th century
- United States -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 18th century
- Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 18th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Joanna Brooks's ancestors were among the earliest waves of emigrants to leave England for North America. They lived hardscrabble lives for generations, eking out subsistence in one place after another as they moved forever westward in search of a new life. Why, Brooks wondered, did her people and countless other poor English subjects abandon their homeland to settle for such unremitting hardship? The question leads her on a journey into a largely obscured dimension of American history. With her family's background as a point of departure, Brooks brings to light the harsh realities behind seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration--and dismantles the long-cherished idea that these immigrants were drawn to America as a land of opportunity. American folk ballads provide a wealth of clues to the catastrophic contexts that propelled early English emigration to the Americas. Brooks follows these songs back across the Atlantic to find histories of economic displacement, environmental destruction, and social betrayal at the heart of the early Anglo-American migrant experience. The folk ballad "Edward," for instance, reveals the role of deforestation in the dislocation of early Anglo-American peasant immigrants; "Two Sisters" discloses the profound social destabilization unleashed by the advent of luxury goods in England; "The Golden Vanity" shows how common men and women viewed their own disposable position in England's imperial project; and "The House Carpenter's Wife" offers insights into the impact of economic instability and the colonial enterprise on women. From these often tragic ballads Brooks uncovers an archaeology of the worldviews of America's earliest immigrants, presenting a new and haunting historical perspective on the ancestors we thought we knew."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1971-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brooks, Joanna
- Dewey number
- 305.9/06912097309032
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- JV6451
- LC item number
- .B76 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- British Americans
- British Americans
- Immigrants
- Immigrants
- Folk music
- Folk music
- United States
- United States
- Great Britain
- Great Britain
- Label
- Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants, Joanna Brooks
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- 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
- Control code
- 816563870
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- ix, 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780816681259
- Isbn Type
- (hbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2012049538
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)816563870
- Label
- Why we left : untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants, Joanna Brooks
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- 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
- Control code
- 816563870
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- ix, 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780816681259
- Isbn Type
- (hbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2012049538
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)816563870
Subject
- British Americans -- History -- 18th century
- Folk music -- Great Britain -- History
- Folk music -- United States -- History
- Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 17th century
- British Americans -- History -- 17th century
- Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 17th century
- Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- United States -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 17th century
- United States -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 18th century
- Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 18th century
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