Polish American history before 1939 : Polish-American history from 1854 to 2004. Volume 1 /
"The history of private lives of first and second generations of Polish immigrants in the U.S., viewed from the perspective of migrants themselves. What did the migrants do? How did they behave? How protagonists (men, women, children) with their own words presented their experience? Their exper...
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| Language: | English Polish |
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New York :
Routledge,
2024.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in American history.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations and archival materials
- List of boxes
- Introduction
- From seasonal migrations to permanent departures to "Hameryka"
- Establishing Polish American neighborhoods
- "We have had enough of the over-praised American freedom" - Work and "Americanization" from the bottom up
- Love and anger: Private lives behind closed doors
- Polonia parishes, parishioners, and the American Roman Catholic Church, 1854-1939
- Constructing identity and charting ethnic boundaries: Polonia's organizations and societies
- We're Polish: children and youth at school and in the streets
- Crescendo: from the Great War to Great Post-War changes: 1914-1924
- Two decades of change: the Roaring Twenties, mass consumption, and the Great Depression
- (Re)shaping identity after the Great War
- Bibliography
- Index.