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A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in US History
by Francesca Morgan.
North Carolina, 301 pp., £27.95, October 2021,978 1 4696 6478 1 Show More
by Francesca Morgan.
North Carolina, 301 pp., £27.95, October 2021,
“... government; a spate of genealogically informed memoirs as part of a broader ethnic revival – Richard Gambino’s Blood of My Blood: The Problem of Italian Americans, for example, and Michael Arlen’s Passage to Ararat. Capitalism turned all this into profit, initially through print publication and the rise of professional genealogy services, and on to ... ”