Croatians of Chicagoland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Croatians of Chicagoland write by Maria Dugandzic-Pasic. This book was released on 2010. Croatians of Chicagoland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chicago was once known as the "Second Croatian Capital." Lured by economic, political, and social freedoms, Croatians, like other immigrants, came to Chicago in search of the American dream. The first documented groups settled mainly in Pilsen, Bridgeport, and the South Side in the late 1800s. By the turn of the century, these immigrants toiled in Chicago's steel mills, meatpacking plants, and construction sites. They soon formed social groups, churches, schools, Croatian-language newspapers, and other infrastructure needed to support the expanding community. Today there are more than 150,000 descendants of Croatian heritage in the Chicagoland area, and many of the foundations built by the forefathers continue to service the community. Ivan Metrovic ́'s "Indian" sculptures still adorn Congress Parkway and Michael Bilandic ́ remains in the history books as the only Croatian mayor of Chicago. Croatians of Chicagoland examines how this community and its leaders, clergy, laborers, politicians, athletes, benevolent societies, and social organizations helped build and shape Chicago's history.
The Life and Work of the Croatian People in Chicagoland
The Life and Work of the Croatian People in Chicagoland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life and Work of the Croatian People in Chicagoland write by Croatian Franciscan Fathers (Chicago, Ill.). This book was released on 1949. The Life and Work of the Croatian People in Chicagoland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Croatian Immigrants in America
The Croatian Immigrants in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Croatian Immigrants in America write by George J. Prpic. This book was released on 1971. The Croatian Immigrants in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
St. Jerome Croatian Catholic Parish in Chicago
St. Jerome Croatian Catholic Parish in Chicago - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook St. Jerome Croatian Catholic Parish in Chicago write by Ante Cuvalo. This book was released on 2013-09-06. St. Jerome Croatian Catholic Parish in Chicago available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Strangers Either Way
Strangers Either Way - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strangers Either Way write by Jasna Čapo Zmegač. This book was released on 2007-08-01. Strangers Either Way available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Croatia gained the world's attention during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. In this context its image has been overshadowed by visions of ethnic conflict and cleansing, war crimes, virulent nationalism, and occasionally even emergent regionalism. Instead of the norm, this book offers a diverse insight into Croatia in the 1990s by dealing with one of the consequences of the war: the more or less forcible migration of Croats from Serbia and their settlement in Croatia, their "ethnic homeland." This important study shows that at a time in which Croatia was perceived as a homogenized nation-in-the-making, there were tensions and ruptures within Croatian society caused by newly arrived refugees and displaced persons from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Refugees who, in spite of their common ethnicity with the homeland population, were treated as foreigners; indeed, as unwanted aliens.
