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From Italy To Boston's North End: Italian Immigration And Settlement, 1890-1910, Stephen Puleo
From Italy To Boston's North End: Italian Immigration And Settlement, 1890-1910, Stephen Puleo
Graduate Masters Theses
More than four million Italian immigrants entered the United States between 1880 and 1920, a number greater than any other ethnic group during America's peak immigration years. From 1900 to 1910 alone, more than two million Italians flowed through American ports. This thesis examines the great Italian migration to and settlement in the United States, focusing on one of America's strongest and most vibrant ethnic communities, Boston’s Italian North End.
The vast majority of Italian immigrants were peasants from agrarian Southern Italy, seeking refuge in America from nearly unbearable conditions in their homeland. They were mostly young, usually poor and …