Our Slavic Fellow Citizens - Couverture rigide

Balch, Emily

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0405005067 ISBN 13 : 9780405005060

Editeur : Arno Pr, 1969

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Book by Balch Emily

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No critic, perhaps, will be so alive to the defects of this study as is the author, yet it is hoped that the book may have a value of its own. It is at least based upon first hand inquiry both in Europe and in A merica; and both are necessary. Acquaintance with any immigrant people in America only is not enough. The naturalist might as well study the habits of a lion in a menagerie or of a wild bird in a cage. To understand the immi grant we should know him in the conditions which have shaped him, and which he has shaped, in his own village and among his own people; we should study the culture of which he is a living part, but which he is for the most part powerless to transport with him to his new home. He must, however, be known also as he develops in America in an environment curiously and intricately blended of old and new elements. Convinced of this, I spent the greater part of the year 1905 in A ustria-H ungary, studying emigration on the spot, and over a year in visiting Slavic colonies in the United States, ranging from New York to Colorado, and from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Galveston. California was unfortunately not reached. One autumn was spent as a boarder in the family of a Bohemian workingman in New York City. Everywhere in Europe and this country, whether or not furnished with letters of introduction, I found Slavs of all classes and kinds ready to show me kindness and lend me intelligent and cordial assistance. While this work has been in progress two most interesting books by Dr. Edward
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arno Pr
• Date d'édition: 1969
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0405005067
• ISBN 13: 9780405005060
• Reliure: Relié
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