Why We Left by Joanna Brooks PAPERBACK 9780816681266

Why We Left\nby Joanna Brooks\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Joanna Brooks\nTitle: Why We Left\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nPublisher: MP - University Of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816681266\nISBN-10: 0816681260\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nA grounded, tender, and mournful reckoning with the catastrophes that launched poor, white Anglos into their role as itinerant foot soldiers for modern imperialismnow in paperback with a new preface\nJoanna Brooks's ancestors were among the early waves of emigrants to leave England for North America. For generations, they lived hardscrabble lives, eking out subsistence in one place after another as they continually moved west in search of a better life. Why, Brooks wondered, d.