{"product_id":"polish-american-history-before-1939-polish-american-history-from-1854-to-2004-volume-1-paperback","title":"Polish American History Before 1939: Polish-American History from 1854 to 2004, Volume 1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Walaszek\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe history of private lives of the first and second generations of Polish immigrants in the United States is 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 experience is compared with one of the other groups. The book discusses migration processes, formation of neighborhoods, experiences at work, daily and family lives, functioning of parishes and tensions related to it, and construction of people's identities and their constant reformulations. Migrants created mutual-aid societies, which played not only economic, but also ideological and political roles. Experiences of immigrants' children at home and at school are presented, mostly in their own words and from their own perspective. Cultural activities reflect constant changes of groups' self-identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book also depicts the relations between the Polish migrants and members of other ethnic groups - in the streets, public spaces, politics, and within the Catholic church. People lived in pluri-cultural, culturally diverse, contexts, and thus relations with \"the others\" were complex. The panorama ended in the year 1939, when after the Great Depression, the group entered into a new period of transformation during the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Walaszek\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history, emeritus, at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, and most recently at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora. He specializes in the history of international migrations and the history of Polish ethnic group in the US. Among his works are \u003cem\u003eMigracje Europejczyk?w\u003c\/em\u003e 1650-1914 (Krak?w, 2007) and \u003cem\u003ePolska diaspora\u003c\/em\u003e (ed., Krak?w, 2001).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47520006701277,"sku":"9781032343532","price":101.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/O2E7EST7mB9781032343532.webp?v=1772235366","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/polish-american-history-before-1939-polish-american-history-from-1854-to-2004-volume-1-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}