Using letters, diaries, memoirs, medical records, and psychological studies, this wide-ranging book uncovers the profound pain felt by Americans on the move from the country's founding until the present day. Susan Matt shows how colonists in Jamestown longed for and often returned to England, African Americans during the Great Migration yearned for their Southern homes, and immigrants nursed memories of Sicily and Guadalajara and, even after years in America, frequently traveled home.
Using letters, diaries, memoirs, medical records, and psychological studies, this wide-ranging book uncovers the profound pain felt by Americans on the move from the country's founding until the present day. Susan Matt shows how colonists in Jamestown longed for and often returned to England, African Americans during the Great Migration yearned for their Southern homes, and immigrants nursed memories of Sicily and Guadalajara and, even after years in America, frequently traveled home.
Susan J. Matt is Presidential Distinguished Professor of History at Weber State University, in Ogden, Utah. She is the author of Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * Chapter One: Emotions in Early America * Chapter Two: Painful Lessons in Individualism * Chapter Three: A House Divided * Chapter Four: Breaking Home Ties * Chapter Five: Immigrants and the Dream of Return * Chapter Six: Transferring Loyalties * Chapter Seven: Mama's Boys, Organization Men, Boomerang Kids, and the Surprising Persistence of the Extended Family * Conclusion Of Helicopter Parents, Facebook, and Wal-Mart: Homesickness in Contemporary America * Notes * Bibliography * Acknowledgements
* Introduction * Chapter One: Emotions in Early America * Chapter Two: Painful Lessons in Individualism * Chapter Three: A House Divided * Chapter Four: Breaking Home Ties * Chapter Five: Immigrants and the Dream of Return * Chapter Six: Transferring Loyalties * Chapter Seven: Mama's Boys, Organization Men, Boomerang Kids, and the Surprising Persistence of the Extended Family * Conclusion Of Helicopter Parents, Facebook, and Wal-Mart: Homesickness in Contemporary America * Notes * Bibliography * Acknowledgements
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