This collection takes a cross-disciplinary, transnational approach and gathers together essays from a range of subjects including linguistics, film studies, fol

At the onset of the American Revolution, Britain's North American colonies sought political independence but remained culturally dependent upon Europe. Among th

In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African Ame

When America began to emerge as a world power at the end of the nineteenth century, Italy was a young nation, recently unified. The technological advances broug