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The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City by James R Barrett Publisher Comments A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city. In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James H. Webb Publisher Comments In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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How the Irish Became White (95 - Old Edition) by Noel Ignatiev Publisher Comments Ignatiev traces the tattered history of Irish and African-American relations, revealing how the Irish used labor unions, the Catholic Church and the Democratic party to succeed in American. He uncovers the roots of conflict between Irish-Americans and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dances with Luigi: A Grandson's Search for His Italian Roots by Paul Paolicelli Publisher Comments In this spirited memoir, veteran TV journalist Paul Paolicelli does what many of us can only dream of--he picks up and moves to a foreign country in an attempt to trace his ancestral roots. With the help of Luigi, his guide and companion, he travels... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City by Thomas Kessner Publisher Comments For the past two decades American scholars have been engaged in an intense examination of social mobility in American life. At the profoundest level, these studies examine the general notion that American society has been historically an open system... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America by Kati Marton Publisher Comments ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE IS A TOUR DE FORCE, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold War that ends with triumph and a new beginning in America. In this true-life thriller Kati Marton, an... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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New Land, New Lives: Scandinavian Immigrants to the Pacific Northwest by Janet Rasmussen Publisher Comments "NEW LAND, NEW LIVES tells in their own words the experiences of 45 immigrants (28 of them women) in the early years of the 20th century. Rasmussen's selections capture the textures and tones of ordinary life. They show how the cultures the immigrants... (read more) List Price $33.25 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America by Kati Marton Publisher Comments ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE IS A TOUR DE FORCE, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold War that ends with triumph and a new beginning in America. In this true-life thriller Kati Marton, an... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Daddy's War: Greek American Stories by Irene Kacandes Publisher Comments When she was very young, Irene Kacandes knew things about her father that had no plot, no narrator, and no audience. To her childhood self these things resembled beings who resided with her family, like the ancestresses whod thrown themselves off cliffs... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Honky by Dalton Conley Publisher Comments As recalled in Honky, Dalton Conleys childhood has all of the classic elements of growing up in America. But the fact that he was one of the few white boys in a mostly black and Puerto Rican neighborhood on Manhattans Lower East Side makes Daltons... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Journey of the Italians in America by Vincenza Scarpaci Publisher Comments A photographic history of Italian-American life. The Italian imprint on North America that began centuries ago with the voyages of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Giovanni da Verrazzano continues in every aspect of American life today. This... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Scotch-Irish: A Social History by James G Leyburn Publisher Comments Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile by Agate Nesaule Publisher Comments "Shows us, in disturbing but illuminating detail, how violence and cruelty register on the psyche. This beautifully written book makes us reckon anew with the deep costs of war."—Eva Hoffman.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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North of Ithaka: A Journey Home Through a Family's Extraordinary Past by Eleni N Gage Publisher Comments In North of Ithaka, Eleni Gage returns to the remote Greek village of Lia, where her father was born and her grandmother murdered, to rebuild the ruins of her namesake's home and come to terms with her family's tragic history. In doing so, she leaves... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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History of the Poles in America to 1908 Pt. III: The Poles in the Eastern & Southern States by Waclaw Kruszka Publisher Comments Continues the highly acclaimed translation of Kruzkas' writings on the history of the Poles in the United States.... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Colony That Rose from the Sea: Norwegian Maritime Migration and Community in Brooklyn, 1850-1930 by David C Mauk Synopsis The development of the Norwegian community in Brooklyn was closely tied to the international maritime trade that developed from the 1850s to 1920. In this first book-length study of the immigrant community originally known as the Red Hook district and... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Irish American Chronicle (Chronicle) by Thomas J Fleming Book News Annotation Noted actress Maureen O'Hara introduces this well-illustrated volume of the Irish-American experience by saying that: "I come from a culture steeped in music, dance, and song. I come from men and women who conquered 800 years of oppression, genocide... (read more) List Price $29.98 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Speckled People: A Memoir by Hugo Hamilton Publisher Comments The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place: His father, a brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic at home whilst his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who escaped Nazi Germany at the beginning of the war... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Middling Folk: Three Seas, Three Centuries, One Scots-Irish Family by Linda H Matthews Publisher Comments Historians and biographers have traditionally favored stories of the powerful and the trends they set in motion. More recently, theyve spotlighted the neglected lives of the disenfranchised and dispossessed. “But,” asks Linda H. Matthews... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James H Webb Publisher Comments More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of Englands Ulster Plantation in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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