1st Edition
Britons to America Oral Narratives of English, Scottish and Welsh Emigrants to the Land of Plenty
By Mario Varricchio
Copyright 2025
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book breaks new ground in the study of British emigration to the United States from the 1860s to the 1930s through the analysis of interviews with English, Scottish and Welsh emigrants collected during the Great Depression era by the Federal Writers’ Project, and mainly from the 1990s by the Ellis Island Museum fieldworkers.
These sources shed light on a period of massive... Read more
Introduction
1. British Voices Yet Unheard
2. Leaving Albion
3. Britons Across the Sea
4. Britons in the Land of Plenty
5. Culture, Identity and Belonging
Conclusions
Biography
Mario Varricchio holds a doctorate in English Studies from the University of Florence and a PhD in History from the University of Edinburgh. His previous books include Back to Caledonia: Scottish Homecoming from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (2012; ed.) and Lontane da casa: donne italiane e diaspora globale (2015; ed. with Stefano Luconi). He currently teaches English at a secondary school in Padua.
