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American Warsaw : the rise, fall, and rebirth of Polish Chicago / Dominic A. Pacyga.
LIBRA F548.9.P7 P329 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pacyga, Dominic A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Polish Americans--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Polish Americans.
- History.
- Chicago (Ill.)--History.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Polish Chicago
- Meet me at the fair: Poland's fourth partition
- Settling in: creating Polonia's capital
- Living in Polish Chicago, 1880-1920
- World War One: a turning point
- Interwar Polonia: years of stress and change
- Apocalypse again: World War Two and its aftermath
- The lost struggle: Chicago's Polonia, communist Poland, and a changing city
- A new Polonia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780226406619
- 022640661X
- OCLC:
- 1083153446
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