La bell'America. Anthony M. Graziano

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Название: La bell'America

Автор: Anthony M. Graziano

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары

Серия: LeapSci

isbn: 9781935248569

isbn: 0

Аннотация:

• “A celebration of immigrants” • A book for both casual readers and those interested in sociology and history • A mix of scholarly analysis and personal reminiscence, written in a way that is very accessible to the average reader but also informative for those who study history • Will appeal to all Americans whose families immigrated to America in the last 150 years • Italian history and culture • Early 20th century American history, including World Wars I and II, the Great Depression, and the political environments of both America and Italy • For readers interested in the mass emigration of Europeans to America in the late 19th and early 20th century • Describes the causes of major historical events and their effects on ordinary, individual people • Analyses the phenomenon of the poor, uneducated European immigrant landing in the bottom of society, ridiculed and exploited, plunged into the Depression with no resources, and yet succeeding in ways that would have been unimaginable in his former country • Includes index and sources • Describes how the decade leading to the Great Depression holds lessons for us today • Author is a well-known scholar in the field of psychology who has written chapters and articles on the history of psychology, science, and certain groups of people • Known author in the worlds of psychology and sociology, with 15 previous books