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La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience
Since Columbus arrived 500 years ago, some five-and-a-half-million other Italians have made the long journey across the Atlantic in search of a better life for their families. La Storia provides a complete account of their particularly rich exodus and Americanization. Photo inserts.
Paperback, 560 pages
Published
September 15th 1993
by Harper Perennial
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Very dense read. This book was written in 1992 and is perhaps due for an update twenty years later. Some good information, but makes broad generalizations about Italian immigrants in regards to religion, gender roles, and mental illness. But I suppose it's difficult not to make blanket statements in a book about a specific culture. Interesting stuff here, though, especially about attitudes towards the Mafia.
It's a shame this book is such sloppy history, because the topic is certainly interesting. But the authors put the reader on notice early on in the book with a few howlers- for example, claiming that Spartacus' revolt was due to the oppression of southern Italy by Rome (possibly they were thinking of the Social War?)- and this looseness with facts continues throughout the book. (Italian-Americans only served in the Pacific theater in WWII unless they were working with OSS? Really?) Also, both th...more
pretty good but only two stars 'cause i'm northern italian and we ain't repped here.
Really interesting background on why my Italian-American relatives left Italy and what their journey may have been like. I started reading it after I saw "The Golden Door" a wonderful indie about immigration -- it starts in Sicily and ends just as the protagonists are about to leave Ellis Island.
This is a great book for anyone with some italian blood- it tells the history if italian american from the first to ever come to the US and the famous ones...and the contributions made by all Italian Americans on our great country....
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An Italian-American writer best known for his depiction of 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.
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