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American Warsaw The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780226406619, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones
Every May, a sea of 250,000 people decked out in red and white head to Chicago's Loop to celebrate the Polish Constitution Day Parade. In the city, you can tune in to not one but four different Polish-language radio stations or jam out to the Polkaho...
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£21,00
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Slaughterhouse Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made
ISBN: PB: 9780226566030, ISBN: HB: 9780226123097, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
From the minute it opened – on Christmas Day in 1865 – it was Chicago's must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the...
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£13,50
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Chicago A Biography
ISBN: PB: 9780226644288, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
472 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 7 maps, 145 halftones
Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a "City on the Make". Carl Sandburg dubbed it the "City of Big Shoulders". Upton Sinclair christened it "The Jungle", while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it "the Second City". At...
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£17,00
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Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922
ISBN: PB: 9780226644240, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
322 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
How did working-class immigrants from Poland create new communities in Chicago during the industrial age? This book explores the lives of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods – the Back of the Yards and South Chicago – and the sto...
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