| Description |
ii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Francesco Vigo: Italian on the American Frontier / Eric Pumroy -- Father John Anthony Grassi: co-founder of Georgetown University / Roberto Severino -- Italian workers in New Haven: mutuality and soidarity at the turn of the century / Jonathon H. Gillette -- The beginnings of the Italian socialist movement in Chicago / Eugene Miller and Gianna Sommi Panofsky -- Prefects, prosecutors and proles: the suppression and trial of the Italian Worker party in 1886 / Michael Hembree - The dilemma of the ethnic community: the Italian immigrant woman between 'Preservation' and 'Americanization'in America of the early twentieth century / Elizabetta Vezzosi -- No place like home: a pictoral essay on Italian-American homeworkers in New York, 1910-1913 / Cynthia R. Daniels -- Italians in Sao Paulo, Brazil: from rural proletariat to middle class / Thomas H. Holloway -- Ansaldo and company in the United States, 1915-1921 / Ferdinando Fasce -- The structural basis of the uneasy shopkeeper: Italian-Americans of the contemporary Northeast / Michael J. Eula -- Pecularities in the Immigration to America of Sardinians from Carloforte, 1900-1930 / Lina Unali and Franco Mulas -- The evolution of Washington's Italian-American community, 1890-present / Howard Gilletee, Jr. and Alan K. Kraut -- Wartime anti-fascism: Gaetano Salvemini and the American authorities / Charles Killinger -- Sicilian separatism, the Mafia and the origins of Sicilian autonomy, 1943-1946 / Monte S. Finkelstein -- Rescue of Jews by the Italian army in Yugoslavia, 1941-1943 / Ivo Herzer -- Italy and the Marshall Plan, 1948-1950 / Chiarella Esposito -- Language, culture and the expression of ethnicity among Italian Americans / Robert J. DiPietro -- The hidden Godfather: plentitude and absence in Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II / John Paul Russo -- Catholicism and violence in the films of Martin Scorsese / Robert Casillo -- Poems / Justin Vitiello. |
| Note |
"Held November 9-11, 1984 in Washington, D.C., with the cooperation of the National Italian American Foundation and the George Washington University"--P. i. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Italian Americans -- Congresses.
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Italian Americans -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Italian Americans -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
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Italy -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Tropea, Joseph L.
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Miller, James Edward.
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Beattie-Repetti, Cheryl.
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| ISBN |
0934675171 |
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