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Articles, reviews, and other scholarly material from the archives of the Polish American Historical Association, the world's leading organization dedicated to the study of Polish immigration in the Americas.
Author : Casimir J. Grotnik
Publisher : East European Monograph
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
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Articles, reviews, and other scholarly material from the archives of the Polish American Historical Association, the world's leading organization dedicated to the study of Polish immigration in the Americas.
Author : James S. Pula
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0786462221
At least nine million Americans trace their roots to Poland, and Polish Americans have contributed greatly to American history and society. During the largest period of immigration to the United States, between 1870 and 1920, more Poles came to the United States than any other national group except Italians. Additional large-scale Polish migration occurred in the wake of World War II and during the period of Solidarity's rise to prominence. This encyclopedia features three types of entries: thematic essays, topical entries, and biographical profiles. The essays synthesize existing work to provide interpretations of, and insight into, important aspects of the Polish American experience. The topical entries discuss in detail specific places, events or organizations such as the Polish National Alliance, Polish American Saturday Schools, and the Latimer Massacre, among others. The biographical entries identify Polish Americans who have made significant contributions at the regional or national level either to the history and culture of the United States, or to the development of American Polonia.
Author : Konstantin Symmons-Symonolewicz
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Polish Americans
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Page : 2520 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 1999
Category : American literature
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Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 1999
Category : American literature
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 34,89 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Poland
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Minorities
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Author : George Sanford
Publisher : Globe Pequot Publishing Group Incorporated/Bloomsbury
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
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Poland has had an exceptionally turbulent thousand-year history marked by extremes of national greatness and decline including patrition and foreign occupation. Currently undergoing another dramatic transformation, Poland has been building a democratic and market system since the fall of communism. The largest and most important nation in Eastern Europe, outside the ex-Soviet Union, is now returning to the European mainstream from which she was for long periods isolated politically and economically, although not culturally. Although Poland has been widely popularized in journalistic clich s in recent years because of Solidarity, the "Polish Pope" and the like, there is still much to be learned about the particular individuals and specific factors which have shaped her history in the past and which are molding her present development. The dictionary strikes a judicious balance in covering past and contemporary figures as well as Poland's richly-textured political, social, and cultural dimensions. The Dictionary has more than four hundred entries and a most comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography. It provides a stimulating and knowledgeable introduction for students, scholars, and librarians as well as a helpful overview-guide for tourists and for those involved in teaching, business, politics, journalism, and public service.
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Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Poland
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Page : 760 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
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