Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians Before Mass Migration

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Penn State Press, Jul 6, 2005 - Social Science - 424 pages
Richard Juliani tells the story of early Italians in the City of Brotherly Love: why they chose that city, what their lives were like, where they lived, and how they interrelated.
 

Contents

The Seeding of Community
50
The City as Incubator
100
Census Parish and Courtroom
140
Family Faith and Fraternity
184
A Community Portrait
228
I Primi Prominenti
254
From Cultural Ideal to Social Reality
296
Authenticating an Early Presence
323
A Bibliographic Essay
369
Index
385
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Richard N. Juliani is Professor of Sociology at Villanova University. He is the author of The Social Organization of Immigration: The Italians in Philadelphia 1980) and co-editor of New Explorations in Italian American Studies (1994).

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