Product Description: New York Mills, named for the textile factories that were once the backbone of the surrounding villages economy, ranked among the foremost producers of quality fabrics in the country. Originally a wilderness area just south of the Mohawk River, the community began with a few scattered homes after the establishment of a small textile mill in 1808...read more

Product Description: Local communities can often provide a microcosm for examining the larger experience of American history and culture. Such is the case with this newly published history of New York Mills. This history traces the evolution of the village through successive periods beginning with the original English, Scottish and Welsh settlers and the establishment of their religious, cultural and social patterns, to the arrival of French-Canadian workers in the 1870s and 1880s, followed by Polish, Italian and Syro-Lebanese immigrants between 1890 and 1920...read more

Twelve essays by scholars on the local history of the most significant ethnic groups in the Utica area, including the African, Bosnian, German, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Lebanese, Onieda Indian, Polish, Syrian, Ukranian, and Welsh communities, that illuminate the reasons why these groups migrated to Central New York and their contributions to the development of local areas.

Product Description: This is detailed account of the character and problems of Polish emigres in the United States from the end of the Polish uprising of 1830 to the end of the second Polish uprising of 1863. Stasik presents the activities of the Polish political exiles in the United States over a period of more than thirty years, explaining many of the basic causes of the emigration...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the fourth and final volume of the translation of Father Waclaw Kruszka's monumental history of the Poles in the United States. Concentrating on the Polish settlements in the central states-Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas-and the far western states, Kruszka continues his study of the largest Slavic group of the turn-of-the-century immigration...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The definitive biography of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, hero of the American Revolution and the Polish revolt against Russian control in the 1790s. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Book by Kruszka, Waclaw (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Pula, James S.

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Product Description: Essays consider a wide range of Polish artists, works, practices, emigré figures, and influences.

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Product Description: This volume covers the period from the 16th century until the mid-19th century when industrialization, urbanization, and the defeat of the last great insurrection combined to create the modern Polish nation. Its focus is on the development of democratic thought in Poland and its application in Polish law and in 19th-century Polish democratic movements in exile...read more

Traces the life and contributions of the French in America through a chronology and pertinent documents.