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Book Title: Immigrants in the Lands of Promise : Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Samuel L. Baily
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Emigration & Immigration, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Latin America / South America
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2004
Genre: History, Social Science
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
