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New York Mills (Hardcover)
Eugene E. Dziedzic, James S. Pula
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This volume presents over 140 primary source documents of Polish
immigrants from different waves and backgrounds speaking about
their lives, concerns, and viewpoints in their own voices, while
they grapple with issues of identity and strive to make sense of
their lives in the context of migration. Poles have come to America
since the Jamestown settlement in 1608 and constituted one of the
largest immigrant groups at the turn of the 19th and 20th
centuries. As of 2020, the Census Bureau lists them as the sixth
largest ethnic group in the country. The history of their
experience is an integral part of the American story as well as
that of the broader Polish diaspora. Each of the ten comprehensive
chapters presents a specific theme illuminated by a selection of
letters, press articles, fragments of memoirs and autobiographical
fiction, interviews, organizational papers, and other publications,
as well as visual sources such as cartoons, posters, and
photographs. Brief introductions to the documents and a "Further
Reading" section offer historical context and point readers to
additional resources. The book provides students and scholars with
a broad understanding and incentive for future study of the Polish
experience in the United States.
A full understanding of the historical process must include studies
of the social and economic conditions of societies as well as
biographies of the people on which a clear understanding of history
is based-but not just the "great" people. Biographies of "average"
individuals, who exist in a society, have their own experiences and
are acted upon by their surrounding environments, are essential to
a clear and complete understanding of the past and its influence on
the present. In this respect, Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm has made
a major contribution to furthering the understanding of World War
II, and especially the part played by Poland and Poles, with her
compilation of individual biographies of people who participated in
many of its formative events. Ziolkowska-Boehm's protagonists
include a variety of people and experiences that enhance the
usefulness of the volume. There are: Tadeusz Brzezinski, a member
of the Polish diplomatic corps; the hero who escaped the Lwow
ghetto to fight in the Warsaw Uprising and later founded a theatre
group in Montreal; a pilot who escaped from the Soviet Union to fly
fighters over Great Britain; a photographer of the Warsaw Uprising;
a nurse during the Warsaw Uprising; a personal memories of the
post-war era move to the United States; a person who was forcefully
deported with her family to the Soviet Urals, later escaping to the
Middle East and eventually Mexico; the boy who, though only eight
when the war began, but survived Pawiak Prison, moved to Brazil,
and became an internationally-known poet and artist.
The period of Sectionalism, Civil War and Reconstruction was the
most traumatic in American history. The outcome changed the
foundations of the nation, with effects still felt today. While
most Civil War histories focus on specific topics-military history,
economics, politics-this book presents the narrative as it unfolded
against a broader historical background. Drawing on direct
quotations from actual participants, the author provides an
interpretive overview of the issues and events that divided and
then devastated the United States.
"The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy" is a series of closely
integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish
thought and practice. It begins with the transformative events of
the mid-nineteenth century, which witnessed revolutionary
developments in the socioeconomic and demographic structure of
Poland, and continues through changes that marked the postcommunist
era of free Poland.
The idea of democracy survived in Poland through long periods of
foreign occupation, the trials of two world wars, and years of
Communist subjugation. Whether in Poland itself or among exiles,
Polish speculation about the creation of a liberal-democratic
Poland has been central to modern Polish political thought. This
volume is unique in that it traces the evolution of the idea of
democracy, both during the periods when Poland was an independent
country--1918-1939 and after 1989--and during the periods of
foreign occupation before 1918 and through World War II and the
Communist era. For those periods when Poland was not free, the
volume discusses how the idea of democracy evolved among exile and
underground Polish circles. This important work is the only
single-volume English-language history of modern Polish democratic
thought and parliamentary systems and represents the latest
scholarly research by leading specialists from Europe and North
America.
"The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy" is a series of closely
integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish
thought and practice. It begins with the transformative events of
the mid-nineteenth century, which witnessed revolutionary
developments in the socioeconomic and demographic structure of
Poland, and continues through changes that marked the postcommunist
era of free Poland.
The idea of democracy survived in Poland through long periods of
foreign occupation, the trials of two world wars, and years of
Communist subjugation. Whether in Poland itself or among exiles,
Polish speculation about the creation of a liberal-democratic
Poland has been central to modern Polish political thought. This
volume is unique in that it traces the evolution of the idea of
democracy, both during the periods when Poland was an independent
country--1918-1939 and after 1989--and during the periods of
foreign occupation before 1918 and through World War II and the
Communist era. For those periods when Poland was not free, the
volume discusses how the idea of democracy evolved among exile and
underground Polish circles. This important work is the only
single-volume English-language history of modern Polish democratic
thought and parliamentary systems and represents the latest
scholarly research by leading specialists from Europe and North
America.
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