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American Warsaw : the rise, fall, and rebirth of Polish Chicago

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2019

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Title:	American Warsaw : the rise, fall, and rebirth of Polish Chicago
Author:	Pacyga, Dominic A., author.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	vii, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Summary:	Chronicles more than a century of immigration, and later emigration back to Poland, showing how the community has continually redefined what it means to be Polish in Chicago.
Subjects:	Polish Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History. Chicago (Ill.) -- History.
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.
ISBN	9780226406619

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