Recent Portuguese Immigrants to Fall River, Massachusetts
Title | Recent Portuguese Immigrants to Fall River, Massachusetts PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothy Ann Gilbert |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Recent Portugese Immigrants to Fall River, Massachusetts
Title | Recent Portugese Immigrants to Fall River, Massachusetts PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothy Ann Gilbert |
Publisher | |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Portugese in Fall River, Massachusetts |
ISBN |
Two Portuguese Communities in New England
Title | Two Portuguese Communities in New England PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Reed Taft |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Labor |
ISBN |
Portuguese-Americans and Contemporary Civic Culture in Massachusetts
Title | Portuguese-Americans and Contemporary Civic Culture in Massachusetts PDF eBook |
Author | Clyde W. Barrow |
Publisher | Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture University of Massachusetts Dartmouth |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
A collected volume on the political perspectives of Portuguese-Americans in Massachusetts that examines attitudes to such key issues as education and foreign language instruction, the economy and access to jobs and mobility, and a range of other social issues such as immigration policy, abortion, and school prayer.
Two Portuguese Communities in New England
Title | Two Portuguese Communities in New England PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Reed Taft |
Publisher | New York : Columbia university |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Emigration and immigration |
ISBN | 9780404512415 |
The Portuguese-Americans
Title | The Portuguese-Americans PDF eBook |
Author | Leo Pap |
Publisher | Boston : Twayne Publishers |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Provincetown
Title | Provincetown PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Christel Krahulik |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2007-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0814747620 |
"Academic studies are often pedantic and dense. This is not the case with this study...Krahulik combines traditional research methods and oral histories to record and interpret this journey in a respectful, scholarly manner." --Choice, Highly Recommended"A fascinating study of a fascinating town; a charming piece of social history that is as readable as it is scholarly." --TWNInsider"At the end of curling Cape Cod, Provincetown has gone through several transformations since the Pilgrims landed there--from Yankee whaling town to Portuguese fishing village to bohemian artist enclave to, today, one of the world's most popular gay resorts. Surprisingly, each of those segments of society contributed to the 'P-town' of today." --Chicago Sun-TimesKaren Krahuliks Provincetown is the definitive book on the history of that mysterious and magical place. Its a singular accomplishment. Im grateful to her for writing it, as I suspect many others will be for years and years to come. --Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours"From Pilgrim's Landing to gay Disneyland, Provincetown has remade itself again and again. Karen Krahulik's remarkable book deftly charts these transformations. She manages to weave New England Yankees, Portuguese fisherman, bohemian artists, and lesbian entrepreneurs into a single history that is both absorbing and revelatory. In her hands, class, race, gender, and sexuality stop being categories or slogans and instead are the stuff of a community's story. This is social history at its most original and very best." --John D'Emilio, author of Sexual Politics, Sexual CommunitiesKrahulik tells a rich and compelling story of a unique community shaped by immigration, global economicforces, ethnic tensions, commercialism, and the struggles of indiv