Italy on the Pacific
Subtitle: San Francisco's Italian Americans
By: Sebastian Fichera
Series: Italian & Italian American studies series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780230338784
Subjects: Immigrants; Italian Americans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pioneers: kindling an Italian group consciousness in early San Francisco; title: The emigration: creating Italy without Italians; title: The immigrant economy: making assets out of liabilities; title: Their signature calling: Italian American wine making comes of age; title: North Beach: a community building thrust achieves critical mass; title: Day of reckoning: fasces vs. stars and stripes and the road to World War II; title: Long journey home: passing into the wider currents of American life; title: Epilogue: creating Americans.