The Greeks in the United States.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saloutos, Theodore

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek Americans.

Physical Description:

xiv, 445 pages illustrations, portraits 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1964.

Summary:

Contributions to our social, political, and intellectual life, by Greeks in the United States, presented by a professor and chairman of the Department of History at U.C.L.A.

Contents:

The Hellas of the immigrant

Preparing for the unknown

Early years

Social and community life

For God and country

The Greek Orthodox Church: the beginnings

Old-world politics in the new: Venizelists versus royalists

The First World War

Greek-Americans and the great idea

Royalists versus Venizelists: second phase

Military obligations and the mother country

The erosion of Hellenic settlement

Greeks in business

The civil war within the Greek church

The second generation

The thirties

The Second World War

The era of respectability.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-400).

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies

Other Format:

Online version: Saloutos, Theodore. Greeks in the United States.

OCLC:

236611