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Staying Italian : urban change and ethnic life in postwar Toronto and Philadelphia / Jordan Stanger-Ross

Author
Stanger-Ross, Jordan
Published
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 190 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts, photographs
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Contents
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.
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.)
0226770761 (electronic bk.)
9780226770741 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226770745 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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