Immigrant's Daughter: Life as a Girl With Lithuanian Immigrant Parents in New York in the 1920's 9781732666207

New Immigrants in New York 9780231887205

A collection of essays on the transformation of New York City by recent immigration and how the immigrants themselves ha

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Surviving the Life of an Immigrant in New York City 9781524500689, 2016907892, 9781524500702, 9781524500696

Sharing one's true-to-life experiences as an immigrant in a foreign country requires reminiscing happy and sad memo

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Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York 9781501721366

By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese

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The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York 9780814785201

Ripped straight from the headlines of the Jazz Age, The Bobbed Haired Bandit is a tale of flappers and fast cars, of sex

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Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants 9780520938601

Drawing on more than fifteen years of research, Mexican New York offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived

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Making music modern: New York in the 1920s 9780195162578, 9780195058499, 9780195363234

New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores t

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Here in This Island We Arrived: Shakespeare and Belonging in Immigrant New York 9780271084213

In this book, Elisabeth H. Kinsley weaves the stories of racially and ethnically distinct Shakespeare theatre scenes in

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What the Dead Know : Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator 9781982179403, 9781982179380

A riveting, deeply personal memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death invest

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Mob Girl: A Woman’s Life In the Underworld 1476795711, 9781476795713

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The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City 9781501724558

Korean immigrants to the United States establish their own small businesses at a rate exceeding that of immigrants from

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