From Sicily to Elizabeth Street: Housing and Social Change Among Italian Immigrants, 1880-1930

by Donna R. Gabaccia

Book Overview

For many immigrants, the move from Sicily to a New York tenement was accompanied by rapid, significant, and often surprisingly satisfactory changes in a wide variety of social relationships. Many of these changes can be traced to the influence of a changing housing environment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873957695
• ISBN13: 9780873957694
• Release Date: June 1984
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"