A history of the Poles in America to 1908 / by Waclaw Kruszka ; edited, with an introduction by James S. Pula ; translated by Krystyna Jankowski ; associate editors, M.B. Biskupski & Stanley Cuba ; assistant editors, T. Lindsay Baker ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kruszka, Wacław, 1868-1937.

Contributor:

Pula, James S., 1946-

Standardized Title:

Historia Polska w Ameryce. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Polish Americans--History.

Polish Americans.

History.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c1993-

Summary:

This is the fourth and final volume of the translation of Father Waclaw Kruszka's monumental history of the Poles in the United States. Concentrating on the Polish settlements in the central states -- Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas -- and the far western states, Kruszka continues his study of the largest Slavic group of the turn-of-the-century immigration. The volume includes an extensive index of all volumes in the series.

Kruszka was a Catholic priest and Polish nationalist who immigrated to the United States in 1893. His purpose in writing the Historya Polska w Ameryca was to chronicle the history of the Polish communities in America in such a way that their contribution to the development of America and the Church would become widely known.

Contents:

pt. 1. A general history of the Polish immigration in America

pt. 2. The Poles in Illinois

pt. 3. Poles in the Eastern and Southern states

pt. 4. Poles in the Central and Western states.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-363).

ISBN:

081320772X

0813208092

081320870X

0813209234

OCLC:

26259030