Leslie Page Moch: 2 books
The Pariahs of Yesterday
Breton Migrants in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Beginning in the 1870s, a great many Bretons—men and women from Brittany, a region in western France—began arriving in Paris. Every age has its pariahs, and in 1900, the “pariahs of Paris” were the Bretons, the last distinct group of provincials to come en masse to the capital city. The pariah...
Broad Is My Native Land
Repertoires and Regimes of Migration in Russia's Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Whether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved in unprecedented numbers across Russia's vast territory during the twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land is the first history of late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through the lens of migration. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and...