| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Samuel L. Baily. Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870–1914. (Cornell Studies in Comparative History.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1999. Pp. xvii, 308. $45.00.

One of the leitmotifs of migration historians is the call to more transnational comparative studies. This is easier said than done because the historian is obliged to develop a background in more than one country and continent. In this book, Samuel L. Baily ventures into one of the more intriguing comparisons in the field: how did the experience of Italians in the United States and Argentina—or, more precisely, New York and Buenos Aires—differ before the outbreak of World War I? These two cities were the prime receiving centers for Italy's 14 million overseas immigrants in the four decades before the Great War, and many families found themselves with members in both metropolises. What drew a prospective migrant to either city? How was the Italian immigrant experience different in each city and why? 1

Baily examines these questions using both his own original research and a vast array of secondary studies. To make a methodical comparison, he prepares a tripartite matrix that examines the immigrants' backgrounds, what they found in their new homes (e.g., class structure, labor market, discrimination), and subsequent structural changes and interaction (concentration of Italians, strategies in the new city). . . .

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