Slovene Immigrant History, 1900-1950
Author: Ivan Molek
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13:
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Historical Dictionary of Slovenia
Author: Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 746
ISBN-13: 1538111063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe expanded third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Slovenia covers personalities and events that have made a mark on Slovenia in the more than a decade since the last edition. This includes new entries related to Slovenia’s first 13 years as a member of NATO and the EU, changing diplomatic relations with its neighbors and other global states and institutions, a new crop of politicians who have upended the political status quo, entries related to Slovenia’s worst 21st century recession (2008-2013), nationwide protests against corruption, and many other developments. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Slovenia contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Slovenia.
Semiotics of Peasants in Transition
Author: Irene Portis-Winner
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2002-07
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780822328414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVOffers a new way of doing ethnography, based on an analysis of interaction between immigrants from a small village in Slovenia to the U.S. and the culture they left./div
The A to Z of Slovenia
Author: Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 0810872161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than 1,300 years Slovenes had lived in Eastern Europe without having a separate Slovene state, but in December of 1990, they voted for independence, or, put more appropriately, for "disassociation" from Yugoslavia. Unfortunately, Slovenia had to fight for its independence, which it did not fully achieve until 1995 after its bloody disintegration with Yugoslavia was over. Since independence, however, Slovenia has prospered; its economy is far ahead of other former communist states and in 2004 Slovenia acceded to both NATO and the European Union, the only republic of former Yugoslavia to do so. The A to Z of Slovenia covers the history of Slovenia and its struggle to gain independence from communism. This is done through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on some of the more significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets.
Slovenes in Michigan
Author: James E. Seelye
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2017-11-01
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 1628953055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Slovenes represent a small but important microcosm of Michigan history. Thousands followed the pioneering missionary Frederic Baraga and settled in the mining regions and forests of the Upper Peninsula before many of them scattered to the auto industry of the Lower Peninsula in the early twentieth century. Everywhere they traveled and settled, they left a detectable imprint that was clearly Slovene. The first Slovene in Michigan, Bishop Frederic Baraga, traveled extensively throughout the state. In his wake, families such as the Vertins and Ruppes followed, each playing an important role in their communities. In many regions of the state, the most recognizable names, buildings, and businesses bear their names and illustrate the long-lasting influences of Slovenes on the history of Michigan. To understand the history of Slovene immigration in the Great Lakes is to better understand Michigan history.
South Slavs in Michigan
Author: Daniel Cetinich
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2003-07-31
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 0870139029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe South Slavs of Michigan—Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Macedonians, and Bosnian Muslims—are a microcosm of the immigration waves of southern and eastern Europeans who came to the United States between 1880 and 1924. History has almost forgotten these immigrants, who were instrumental in developing the large urban centers of Michigan and the United States, and who specifically contributed to development of the auto industry and struck in 1913–1914 for better working conditions in the copper mines of the Upper Peninsula. While labor problems were the primary obstacles confronting Michigan’s South Slavs, the painful process of acculturation has since dimmed their very real accomplishments. As Daniel Cetinich shows, South Slavs helped shape both a regional and national civilization in North America with their hands, backs, feet, and the labor organizations they helped create.
Literary Anthropology
Author: Fernando Poyatos
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9027275084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe traditional gulf between the theory and practice of literature and the various areas subjoined under anthropology has hindered the development of some very fruitful perspectives in the realm of poetics and the general theory of literature (particularly in its narrative forms). Poyatos' initial idea of literary anthropology as the study of people and their cultural manifestations through their national literatures - without doubt the richest source of documentation of human life-styles and the most advanced form of our projection in time and space and of communicating with contemporary and future generations - has been enriched by the thoughts of a multi-cultural group of scholars from both anthropology and literature who at a first symposium on the subject attempted to define this area leaving the way open to many more research possibilities.
Immigrant America
Author: Timothy Walch
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0815316658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out
Author: James R. Barrett
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2017-07-27
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0822372851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by investigating the ways in which working-class, radical, and immigrant people's personal lives intersected with their activism and religious, racial, ethnic, and class identities. Concerned with carving out space for individuals in the story of the working class, Barrett examines all aspects of individuals' subjective experiences, from their personalities, relationships, and emotions to their health and intellectual pursuits. Barrett's subjects include American communists, "blue-collar cosmopolitans"—such as well-read and well-traveled porters, sailors, and hoboes—and figures in early twentieth-century anarchist subculture. He also details the process of the Americanization of immigrant workers via popular culture and their development of class and racial identities, asking how immigrants learned to think of themselves as white. Throughout, Barrett enriches our understanding of working people’s lives, making it harder to objectify them as nameless cogs operating within social and political movements. In so doing, he works to redefine conceptions of work, migration, and radical politics.
