{"product_id":"from-sicily-to-elizabeth-street-housing-and-social-change-among-italian-immigrants-1880-1930-9780873957694","title":"From Sicily to Elizabeth Street: Housing and Social Change Among Italian Immigrants, 1880-1930","description":"From Sicily to Elizabeth Street analyzes the relationship of environment to social behavior. It revises our understanding of the Italian-American family and challenges existing notions of the Italian immigrant experience by comparing everyday family and social life in the agrotowns of Sicily to life in a tenement neighborhood on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving historical understanding beyond such labels as uprooted and huddled masses, the book depicts the immigrant experience from the perspective of the immigrants themselves. It begins with a uniquely detailed description of the Sicilian backgrounds and moves on to recreate Elizabeth Street in lower Manhattan, a neighborhood inhabited by some 8,200 Italians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author shows how the tightly knit conjugal family became less important in New York than in Sicily, while a wider association of kin groups became crucial to community life. Immigrants, who were mostly young people, began to rely more on their related peers for jobs and social activities and less on parents who remained behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterpreting their lives in America, immigrants abandoned some Sicilian ideals, while other customs, though Sicilian in origin, assumed new and distinctive forms as this first generation initiated the process of becoming Italian-American.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donna R. Gabaccia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/1984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 5.96w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780873957694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonna R. Gabaccia\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40226870853747,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":32.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_309640c6-3bf7-4d78-bfc3-2a1d41145c9b.jpg?v=1656768741","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/from-sicily-to-elizabeth-street-housing-and-social-change-among-italian-immigrants-1880-1930-9780873957694","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}