Authors of Their Lives : the Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century.

Authors of Their Lives : the Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century.

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2008 United States Postal System's Rita Lloyd Moroney Award. In the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which they voluntarily left? Regardless of literacy leve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gerber, David A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2006.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Immigrants' writings, American.
Transnationalism > History > 19th century > Sources.
Letter writing > History > 19th century.
Immigrants > Canada > Correspondence.
Immigrants > United States > Correspondence.
British > Canada > Correspondence.
British Americans > Correspondence.
Écrits d'immigrants américains.
Transnationalisme > Histoire > 19e siècle > Sources.
Britanniques > Canada > Correspondance.
Américains d'origine britannique > Correspondance.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General.
British.
British Americans.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants.
Letter writing.
Transnationalism.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century > Sources.
Canada > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century > Sources.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century > Sources.
Canada.
Great Britain.
United States.
History.
Personal correspondence.
Sources.

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