{"product_id":"authors-of-their-lives-the-personal-correspondence-of-british-immigrants-to-north-america-in-the-nineteenth-century-9780814732007","title":"Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2008 United States Postal System's Rita Lloyd Moroney Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which they voluntarily left? Regardless of literacy level, they wrote letters, explains David A. Gerber in this path-breaking study of British immigrants to the U.S. and Canada who wrote and received letters during the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003eScholars have long used immigrant letters as a lens to examine the experiences of immigrant groups and the communities they build in their new homelands. Yet immigrants as individual letter writers have not received significant attention; rather, their letters are often used to add color to narratives informed by other types of sources.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthors of Their Lives\u003c\/b\u003e analyzes the cycle of correspondence between immigrants and their homelands, paying particular attention to the role played by letters in reformulating relationships made vulnerable by separation. Letters provided sources of continuity in lives disrupted by movement across vast spaces that disrupted personal identities, which depend on continuity between past and present. Gerber reveals how ordinary artisans, farmers, factory workers, and housewives engaged in correspondence that lasted for years and addressed subjects of the most profound emotional and practical significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David A. Gerber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 6.14w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814732007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGerber, David A.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eDavid A. Gerber\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history, University at Buffalo (SUNY). His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Making of an American Pluralism: Buffalo, New York, 1825-1861\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Ohio and the Color Line, Anti-Semitism in American History\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003e Disabled Veterans in History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44233580249203,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":61.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_bf2bee2f-2e17-42e9-8604-f3be84312e95.jpg?v=1768744213","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/authors-of-their-lives-the-personal-correspondence-of-british-immigrants-to-north-america-in-the-nineteenth-century-9780814732007","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}