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

by David A. Gerber

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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 level, they wrote letters, explains David A. Gerber in this path-breaking study of British immigrants to the U.S. and Canada who wrote and received...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0814732003

ISBN13:9780814732007

Release Date:July 2008

Publisher:New York University Press

Length:422 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 8.3"

Related Subjects

Americas Canada Education & Reference England Essays & Correspondence Europe Historical Study & Educational Resources History Humanities Letters & Correspondence

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