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Article: Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians before Mass Migration.(Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- December 22, 1999
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Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians before Mass Migration. By Richard N. Juliani (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xxi plus 398pp. $50.00/cloth $19.95/paperback).
In this useful study, Richard Juliani builds on the methods and insights of thirty years of research on Italian American life during the mass migrations, but charts a new course by examining the years before 1870. He opens new areas of inquiry while also addressing questions central to the historiography on the later period. Using the methods preferred by ethnic historians since the 1970s--the social history of one community--Juliani has mined a rich variety of ...