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"Chi lascia la via vecchia..." :Law, ethnicity, and the immigration experience. Italians in industrial America, 1890--1925 (Pennsylvania)

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Chi lascia la via vecchia..." :
Reminder of title:	Law, ethnicity, and the immigration experience. Italians in industrial America, 1890--1925 (Pennsylvania)
Author:	Natalini, Robert S.
Description:	330 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Mary Frances Berry.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 1085.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-03A.
Subject:	History, United States.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3125883
ISBN:	0496731726

"Chi lascia la via vecchia..." :Law, ethnicity, and the immigration experience. Italians in industrial America, 1890--1925 (Pennsylvania)
Natalini, Robert S.

"Chi lascia la via vecchia..." :Law, ethnicity, and the immigration experience. Italians in industrial America, 1890--1925 (Pennsylvania) [electronic resource] - 330 p.

Adviser: Mary Frances Berry.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2004.

Most of the millions of Italians who arrived in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries resided in major urban centers, but significant numbers moved beyond the metropolis. Using the case of Washington County, located in southwestern Pennsylvania, this dissertation examines aspects of the experiences of Italian immigrants and their children in the rural districts and small towns of a county experiencing urbanization, fast economic growth, and high rates of population growth and diversification. The dissertation focuses principally on the newcomers' experiences with American law and the county legal system. It uses their legal records in conjunction with federal censuses, ships' manifests, naturalization records, oral histories, and other sources to situate their narratives of the matters they took to court within the broader context of their lives. During the period studied, Italian immigrants and their children increasingly used law and legal processes to achieve their objectives. The dissertation addresses how they did so with respect to two areas of the law. Some men and women used divorce law to formalize marital dissolutions, render their legal status consistent with the circumstances of their lives, and create opportunities to form new families. Others sought compensation from those who harmed them. The ways they used and experienced the legal process were shaped by their backgrounds and the circumstances of their transnational lives, and they shaped the process through their participation in it. Meanwhile they gained no entry into the legal hierarchy in a time when the county bench and bar were effectively inaccessible to the new immigrants and their children, members of racial minorities, and women. The dissertation explores racial, ethnic, and religious conflict occurring during the period by examining the activity of the Ku Klux Klan as it touched the lives of Italians and others in the county and ways in which Italians and other targets of the Klan's animosity responded through legal and extra-legal means.

ISBN: 0496731726Subjects--Topical Terms:

212533
History, United States.

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