Reinventing Free Labor
Reinventing Free Labor

Author: Gunther Peck

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-05-22

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521778190

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One of the most infamous villains in North America during the Progressive Era was the padrone, a mafia-like immigrant boss who allegedly enslaved his compatriots and kept them uncivilized, unmanly, and unfree. In this history of the padrone, first published in 2000, Gunther Peck analyzes the figure's deep cultural resonance by examining the lives of three padrones and the workers they imported to North America. He argues that the padrones were not primitive men but rather thoroughly modern entrepreneurs who used corporations, the labour contract, and the right to quit to create far-flung coercive networks. Drawing on Greek, Spanish, and Italian language sources, Peck analyzes how immigrant workers emancipated themselves using the tools of padrone power to their own advantage.

Imagining Italians
Imagining Italians

Author: Joseph P. Cosco

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0791486621

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Integrating history, literary criticism, and cultural studies, Imagining Italians vividly tells the story of two voyages across the Atlantic: America's cultural pilgrimage to Italy and the Italian "racial odyssey" in America. It examines how American representations of Italy, Italians, and Italian Americans engaged with national debates over immigration, race, and national identity during the period 1880–1910. Joseph P. Cosco offers a close analysis of selected works by immigrant journalists Jacob Riis and Edward Steiner and American iconographic writers Henry James and Mark Twain. Exploring their Italian depictions in journalism, photos, travel narratives, and fiction, he rediscovers the forgotten Edward Steiner and offers fresh readings of Riis's reform efforts and photography, James's The Golden Bowl and The American Scene, and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson.

Phil, the Fiddler
Phil, the Fiddler

Author: Horatio Jr. Alger

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-11-16

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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"Phil, the Fiddler" by Horatio Jr. Alger. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Georgio Italiano
Georgio Italiano

Author: Harry D. George

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1552125386

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A dying American WWII vet tells his story to his son during his final months - his story of becoming a pilot, of flying overseas and entering combat, of being shot down, of going from cockpit to caveman, and of being on the run for 78 days behind German lines north of Florence in Tuscany in 1944, of finally being liberated by American troops - and of joyously arriving home and being reunited with his wife on their Fifth Wedding Anniversary.

Empire City
Empire City

Author: Kenneth T. Jackson

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 1020

ISBN-13: 9780231109093

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This major anthology brings together the best literary writing about New York--from O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck to Paul Auster and James Baldwin.

Phil the Fiddler
Phil the Fiddler

Author: Horatio Alger

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2019-09-25

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 3734063442

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Reproduction of the original: Phil the Fiddler by Horatio Alger