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Casimir Pulaski 1747-1779: A Short Biography
Presents a biography of Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski (1747-1779), provided by the Chicago Public Library in Illinois and written by John J. Kulczycki. Highlights his role in the Polish rebellion against Russia and his exile from Poland. Describes his role in the American Revolutionary War. Links to the library's home page and to the Portage-Cragin Polish Language Collection.
School Strikes in Prussian Poland, 1901-1907
An important contribution to Polish-Prussian relations at the beginning of the nineteenth century focusing on the problems related to bilingualism and political indoctrination in educational institutions and their significance in the evolution and history of nationalism.
Belonging to the Nation
When the Nazis annexed western Poland in 1939, they quickly set about identifying Polish citizens of German origin and granting them the privileged legal status of ethnic Germans of the Reich. Following Germany’s defeat in World War II, Soviet-dominated Poland incorporated eastern Germany and proceeded to do just the opposite: searching out Germans of Polish origin and offering them Polish citizenship. Underscoring the processes of inclusion and exclusion that mold national communities, Belonging to the Nation examines the efforts of Nazi Germany and postwar Poland to nationalize inhabitants of the contested Polish-German borderlands. Histories of the experience of national minorities in t...
The Foreign Worker and the German Labor Movement
Based on extensive research in Polish and German archives this book documents the major developments within the labor movement in the Ruhr, including the mass strikes of 1889, 1905 and 1912 and the so-called 'Polish Revolt' of 1899. The author argues that Polish militancy generally exceeded that of native miners and calls into question the standard view of the Polish workers' relationship to the labor movement. This revisionist book begs a reconsideration of the role that foreign labor plays in modern industrial societies.
