Authors of their lives (Record no. 86495)
| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02474nam a2200421 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 973.5/092/241 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Gerber, David A., |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Authors of their lives |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York : |
| Name of publisher | New York University Press, |
| Year of publication | c2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | x, 422 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Traditions of inquiry -- Forming selves in letters -- Writing with a purpose : immigrant epistolarity and the culture of emigration -- Using postal systems : transnational networks on the edge of modernity -- Establishing voice, theme, and rhythm -- When correspondence wanes -- Thomas Spencer Niblock : a dialogue of respectability and failure -- Catherine Grayston Bond : letter-writing as the practice of existential accounting -- Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald : longing for her "little isle" from a farm in central New York -- Dr. Thomas Steel : the difficulties of achieving the reunited family. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | British Americans |
| Topical Term | British |
| Topical Term | Immigrants |
| Topical Term | Immigrants |
| Topical Term | Letter writing |
| Topical Term | Transnationalism |
| Topical Term | Immigrants' writings, American. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10137147 |
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