essay

The Italian heritage in Tampa

Little Italies in North AmericaTorontoPublished In 1981 • Pages: 123-140

By: Pizzo, Anthony P..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an historical account of the Italian Americans in Tampa, Florida from the sixteenth century, when Italians served on Spanish exploratory expeditions, to approximately the mid twentieth century. The major time focus, however, is on the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Pizzo describes the early Italian migrations to Tampa, outstanding Italian American entrepreneurs, Italian American business enterprises (e.g., vegetable farms, vineyards, groceries, commercial fisheries, dairying, cigar manufacture), the mutual benefit societies, and politics.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Life history materials
External migration
History
Sociocultural trends
Ethos
Tobacco industry
Settlement patterns
Insurance
Labor supply and employment
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Italian Americans
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2000
RegionThe area the document pertains to
North America
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
essay
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Historian
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
4: Excellent Secondary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
John Beierle ; 1999
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1513-mid twentieth century
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Tampa, Fla., United States
NotesAdditional notes
Anthony P. Pizzo
Includes bibliographical references (p. 140)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
82175514
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Italian Americans