Rosa The Life of an Italian Immigrant

Name: Rosa The Life of an Italian Immigrant
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ISBN: 9780299162542

ISBN-10: 0299162540

ISBN-13: 9780299162542

Edition: 2nd 1999

Authors: Marie Hall Ets, Rudolph Vecoli, Helen Barolini

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nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;This is the life story of Rosa Cavalleri, an Italian woman who came to the United States in 1884, one of the peak years in the nineteenth-century wave of immigration. A vivid, richly detailed account, the narrative traces Rosa’s life in an Italian peasant village and later in Chicago. Marie Hall Ets, a social worker and friend of Rosa’s at the Chicago Commons settlement house during the years following World War I, meticulously wrote down her lively stories to create this book. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Rosa was born in a silk-making village in Lombardy, a major source of north Italian emigration; she first set foot in the United States at the Castle Garden immigrant depot on…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 5/3/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English