Italians in Toronto: Development of a National Identity, 1875-1935: Volume 3 (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History) - Hardcover

Zucchi, John E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773506535 ISBN 13: 9780773506534

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988

Synopsis

Italians began migrating to Toronto in large numbers toward the end of the nineteenth century. Many of these immigrants were peasants who arrived in the new world with only a vague sense of nationality. In Italy, their identity had been primarily connected with the villages that were their homes and only secondarily with regions and country. In Toronto, as in other North American cities, a more emphatic sense of Italian nationalism developed. John Zucchi identifies the distinguishing factors which led to the formation of a strong, nationalistic Italian community in Toronto and to the shift in loyalty from the local level to the national. These two elements of the immigrants' identity are dealt with in each chapter, so that while analysing the internal history of an ethnic group in a Canadian city, Zucchi also details the histories of many Italian village families.

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• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773506535
• ISBN 13: 9780773506534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288