God's Playground A History of Poland

God's Playground A History of Poland
Author: Norman Davies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2005-02-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199253401

This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently fallen prey to interested parties. Professor Norman Davies adopts a sceptical stance towards all existing interpretations and attempts to bring a strong dose of common sense to his theme. He presents the most comprehensive survey in English of this frequently maligned and usually misunderstood country.

Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago

Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago
Author: Dominic A. Pacyga
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2003-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226644240

Chronicles the experiences of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods in Chicago to demonstrate how Poles created new communities in an attempt to preserve the customs of their homeland.

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
Author: Jerzy Roman Krzyżanowski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1972
Genre: Authors, Polish
ISBN:

A critical biography of Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, a Polish novelist.

The Peasants

The Peasants
Author: Wladyslaw Reymont
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0241524253

One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village's wealthiest farmer, has taken the young and beautiful Jagusia as his bride - but she only has eyes for his impetuous son Antek. Over the course of four seasons - Autumn to Summer - the tangled skein of their story unravels, watched eagerly by the other peasants: the gossip Jagustynka, pious Roch, hot-blooded Mateusz, gentle Witek ... Richly lyrical and thrillingly realist, at turns comic, tragic and reflective, Wladyslaw Reymont's magnum opus is a love song to a lasting dream of rural Poland, and to the eternal, timeless matters of the heart.

The Borders of Integration

The Borders of Integration
Author: Brian McCook
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 0821419269

A comparative study of Polish migrants in the Ruhr Valley and in northeastern Pennsylvania, The Borders of Integration questions assumptions about race and white immigrant assimilation a hundred years ago, highlighting how the Polish immigrant experience is relevant to present-day immigration debates.