Menina Menina. Storie da un'oasi italiana in Brasile. Pedrinhas 1951-1991 (Quaderni sulle migrazioni 21)
Isernia: Cosmo Iannone Editore, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. Tall octavo; 156, [3]. Fine copy in illustrated wraps. 'Take one of the leading Italian experts in reclamation of the last century, take a heterogeneous group of farming families from all over Italy and a group of former officials of Italian Africa in search of new fortune, take a fundamentalist parish priest of San Donà di Piave and catapult them into the middle of the interior paulista of the early 50s. Add Brazilians from the Northeast, sprinkle everything with red earth and Pedrinhas will come out of it, a unique historical dish: Marshall Plan, Italian emigration to Brazil, agrarian reform in Italy, Africanists to the barrage, appendages of the Marshall Plan, Italian-Brazilian mixing, Venetian Catholicism, cooperativism, linguistic mixtures and much more. The story of Pedrinhas, told through the direct testimonies of its protagonists, is particularly suitable for those who are looking for original interpretations and new historiographical ideas.' (Publisher). Item #21230
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