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Explorers Emigrants Citizens: A Visual History of the Italian American Experience from the Collections of the Library of Congress
By Osborne, Linda Barrett & Paolo Battaglia
- ISBN
- 9788896408148
- Publisher
- Anniversary
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Reviewed on June 1, 2014 | Social Sciences
This beautiful volume compiled by Italian author Battaglio and Italian American author Osborne (Miles To Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years) documents the Italian American experience from Christopher Columbus's landing on these shores to the present. The photographs, along with introductory essays by scholars Antonio Canovi and Mario B. Mignone, detail the evolution of Italian American communities; like Ken Ciongoli and Jay Parini's Passage to Liberty, the book describes how the community helped shape American s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
