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Charcoal and Blood: Italian Immigrants in Eureka, Nevada and the Fish Creek Massacre. By Silvio Manno. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2016. ix + 278 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95, paper.) Silvio Manno examines immigration dynamics, labor unrest, and a violent clash that laid bare a heated socioeconomic battle on Nevada’s mining frontier. Set in the 1870s, this book traces the development of class identity among Italian charcoal burners in Eureka, Nevada, as they struggled to raise the rate for a bushel of charcoal. By mapping relationships within the Italian American community that shaped larger economic conditions, Manno describes how higher status, established Italian Americans possibly helped funnel lower-status countrymen into Nevada and how, in return, the new migrants became loyal patrons of Italian … sondra.cosgrove{at}csn.edu
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