Brooks, Joanna, 1971-
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction : brave men run — No land of opportunity : folk ballads and the story of why we left — Murder the brother who killed the tree : fratricide and the story of deforestation — Sisters and a beaver hat : desire and the story of colonial commodity culture — To sink it in the lonesome sea : betrayal and the story of indentured servitude — Seduction of the house carpenter’s wife: abandonment and the story of colonial — Migration — Epilogue : ballad of the laboring poor.

Subjects:

• United States — Emigration and immigration — History — 17th century.
• United States — Emigration and immigration — History — 18th century.
• Great Britain — Emigration and immigration — History — 17th century.
• Great Britain — Emigration and immigration — History — 18th century.
• British Americans — History — 17th century.
• British Americans — History — 18th century.
• Immigrants — United States — History — 17th century.
• Immigrants — United States — History — 18th century.
• Folk music — United States — History.
• Folk music — Great Britain — History.

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