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Jacob's well : a case for rethinking family history

Title
Jacob's well : a case for rethinking family history / Joseph A. Amato.
Author
Amato, Joseph Anthony.
Publication
St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2008.
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xvi, 279 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-279).
Contents
Preface : family history, a way to know our selves and our times -- Introduction : putting on the coat of the past -- Rosalia, a misery as ancient as Sicily -- "Forty acres, and all mine" -- Banished from Acadia, exiled in Plymouth colony -- Up and down the hills of Maine, and off to Wisconsin -- Migrants west -- A memorable death, a common lot -- Jacob, the rise and fall of a plebian patriarch -- Cousins of the tongue -- Workers to the bone, east siders to the end -- Conclusion : the reason for, and the matter of, family history -- Appendix : Amato, Linsdeau, and associated families.
Call Number
APV (Amato) 08-3246
ISBN
  • 9780873516136 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0873516133 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007046458
OCLC
182621379
Author
Amato, Joseph Anthony.
Title
Jacob's well : a case for rethinking family history / Joseph A. Amato.
Imprint
St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-279).
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APV (Amato) 08-3246
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