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Staying Italian urban change and ethnic life in postwar Toronto and Philadelphia  Cover Image E-book E-book

Staying Italian urban change and ethnic life in postwar Toronto and Philadelphia

Summary: A comparison of the social dynamics prevailing in two distinctive Italian communities, in Philadelphia & Toronto, this text explores why the character of each community has come to be so unlike the other.

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  • ISBN: 9780226770765 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0226770761 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780226770741 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0226770745 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (xiv, 190 p.) : ill., maps, charts, photographs.
  • Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Cities apart: Toronto and Philadelphia -- Italian markets: real estate exchange and ethnic community -- Invitations and boundaries: patterns of religious participation -- Courtship, marriage, and the geography of intimacy -- Breaking the mold: work and postwar ethnicity.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Italian Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 20th century
Italians -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 20th century
Ethnicity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Ethnicity -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Ethnic neighborhoods -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
Ethnic neighborhoods -- Canada -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
Ethnic neighborhoods
Ethnicity
Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity
Italians -- Ethnic identity
Canada
Ontario -- Toronto
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
United States
Genre: Electronic books.
Case studies.
History.

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