Summary of Two Countries, One Home, One Occupation

Summary of Two Countries, One Home, One Occupation write one page summary for the reading and one meaningful question after the summary. 208 Andrew Popp 19. Ibid., 317. 20. Stott, 2006. 21. Hamilton, 2006. 12 Two Countries, One Home, One 22. Popp, 2012. 1 23. Ibid. Occupation 24. Shaw Ms. No. 75, Elizabeth Shaw to John Shaw, 12 Au ust 1834. 25. Owens, 2002. g Italian Ice Cream Parlors as a Family 26. Webster, 2005. . ' ° 1 Popp, 2011. Popp and Holt, forthcoming-b. BUSIHeSS 1n Germany, 1 9OO-Today Finn, 2010. 29. Popp, 2009. 30. DB/24/B/450. Assorted Correspondence, 1839-1846. Archives of T. E. Anne overbeCk Thomson and Co. Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies (hereafter WALS). All Shaw and Thomson archives are publicly accessible. 31. DB/24/B/WALS. 32. Vickery, 2009. Whether as chimneysweeps, construction workers, or stonemasons, Italian 33. Shaw Ms. No. 26, John Shaw to Elizabeth Shaw, 20 September 1835_ migrants have been traveling back and forth between Germany and Italy for 34. ailsfioauriiezihedrtletters Cited ll’l thss chapter were Ivylrittendinfgrnfially, often over a century. Italian ice cream makers and their family businesses, however, O r o punctuation an capita ization. ave e ite t em lightly, adding bracketed punctuation, for reader comprehension but have left many are Fhe mosr numerous and prommem m e German p-Ubllc Snpercepnon. errors uncorrected to give a better sense of the original documents. , During the German erts‘fbaflswunder or Economic erade’ a phase 9f 35. WALS DB/24/B/450; Assorted Correspondence, 1839-1846. Intense economic growth, Ice cream parlors sprang up In every German VII- 36- Ibrd- ' lage and suburb. The Eiscafé Venezia was a standard element of the German business landscape and-with minor adjustments-has remained so up to 39_ Ibid. Thomson was destined to die in India. today. Even though most Germans remember the 19505 as the period when 1 4o_ Ibid. ~ Italian ice cream parlors were established 1n Germany, their history goes 41. Ibid. back much further. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, gelatieri have 42- Ibfd- been selling their products all over Europe, especially in Germany. Some families have managed to maintain their businesses into the fourth or fifth 45. DB/24/B/461_ Letters between Powell and Turner, 1849. WALS. generation.2 Remarkably, over this extended period the trade succeeded 1n 46, Ibid_ keeping over 80 percent of the ice cream parlors in the hands of relatively 47. Ibid. few families, all of whom stem from two small valleys in the Dolomites. 48. Unsurprisingly, Powell was intensely frustrated: “Three years have elapsed Family and family networks, thus, have been CXtremely important to these E§:;rrip:1t;iysgr;c:;hfimiin died anitlf‘le bogks are not[yet lclplseld and for allI businesses’ success. Historian Sylvia Junko Yanagisako put it poignantly: er ree years e oret ey are . . . yet t e ast conversa- tion we had you said ‘that although Mr Shaw had sanctioned an increase for i i -. la-bor I? ‘never abs-Iraq, b3: ls a'leays prqwded by eople With parilcuiar yet you congldered that the concern would not bear it without any reference soc1al identities and histories. This is espCCially applicable to the Italian ice whatever to the books being closed or not: ” Ibid. cream makers as family and busmess life are almost inseparable for them. g’ld- u d O This fusion influences almost every aspect of their private lives, including wig; faizrilnl’gesflggignfigyee, PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ORDER WITH US TODAY AND GET AN AMAZING DISCOUNT :)