A history of the Polish Americans

Titel: A history of the Polish Americans
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Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publ., 2008
Umfang: XLI, 192 S. : Abb.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781412806800

In the last, rootless decade families, neighborhoods, and communities have disintegrated in the face of gripping social, economic, and technological changes. Th is process has had mixed results. On the positive side, it has produced a mobile, volatile, and dynamic society in the United States that is perhaps more open, just, and creative than ever before. On the negative side, it has dissolved the glue that bound our society together and has destroyed many of the myths, symbols, values, and beliefs that provided social direction and purpose. In A History of the Polish Americans, John J. Bukowczyk provides a thorough account of the Polish experience in America and how some cultural bonds loosened, as well as the ways in which others persisted.