American Warsaw : the rise, fall, and rebirth of Polish Chicago
(2019)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
977.311/PACYGA,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019
DESCRIPTION
321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780226406619, 022640661X, 9780226406619
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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