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Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Arrivals and Departures; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Part II: The Nineteenth Century; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Part III: Across the Atlantic-and back; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Part IV: Transatlantic Views; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Part V: Topographies of Slavery and Colonialism; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Part VI: Tropes of Migration and Harboring; Chapter Eighteen; Chapter Nineteen; Chapter Twenty. |
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Part VII: Trans-Pacific EncountersChapter Twenty-One; Chapter Twenty-Two; Chapter Twenty-Three; Part VIII: Inflections of the Italian American Experience; Chapter Twenty-Four; Chapter Twenty-Five; Chapter Twenty-Six; Part IX: Italian Americans between Fact and Fiction; Chapter Twenty-Seven; Chapter Twenty-Eight; Chapter Twenty-Nine; Part X: Representing Muslim America after 9/11; Chapter Thirty; Chapter Thirty-One; Chapter Thirty-Two; Contributors. |
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Poised between the land and the sea, enabling the dynamic flow of people and goods, while also figuratively representing a safe place of rest and refuge, the harbor constitutes a liminal, ambivalent space par excellence that has been central to the American imagination and history since the early colonial days. From the mythical tales of discovery and foundation to the endless flows of migrants, through the dark pages of the slave trade and the imperialistic dream of an ever-expanding nation, harbors, both as a trope and as physical spaces, powerfully signify the American experience. Today, at. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- Congresses.
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United States. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Print version: HARBORS, FLOWS, AND MIGRATIONS. [Place of publication not identified] : CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUB, 2017 1443873187 9781443873185 (OCoLC)986885127 |
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9781443892339 (electronic book) |
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1443892335 (electronic book) |
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1443873187 |
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9781443873185 |
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