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Book Review
Italy's Many Diasporas. By Donna R. Gabaccia. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. xvi, 264 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-295-97917-8. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-295-97918-6.)
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Donna R. Gabaccia has achieved a masterly synthesis of the extensive literature on migration from and to the Italian peninsula over the last eight hundred years. Exploiting scholarship from five continents and many countries, she successfully gives an account of the italiani nel mondo. "Italians Everywhere," the title of a project that laid the foundation for this book, well describes its scope. In addition to her thorough mining of secondary literature, Gabaccia contributes new research throughout the book. Her use of the Jacini Commission records to examine the consequences on their home villages of emigration and repatriation of plebeian migrants is an example. |
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