Revisiting the Classics: Immigration and Urbanization – The Slovak Experience, 1870-1918
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In 1974, the University of Minnesota granted M. Mark Stolarik a Ph.D. for his dissertation “Immigration and Urbanization: The Slovak Experience, 1870-1918,” which was published under the same title by AMS Press in New York in 1989. Based on thorough archival research in Slovakia and in the US, Stolarik traced the migration of Slovak peasants, largely from villages in eastern Slovakia (then part of the Kingdom of Hungary) to the industrial northeast of the US, in search of work. There, these immigrants established the three pillars of their communities: fraternal-benefit societies, parish churches, and a thriving newspaper press. Through these institutions, they managed to preserve many aspects of their culture over three generations in the New World.
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M. Mark Stolarik, Professor and Chairholder Emeritus, Chair in Slovak History & Culture, University of Ottawa
MARIÁN MARK STOLÁRIK, Ph.D. (Minnesota, 1974), is Professor of History and holder of the Chair in Slovak History and Culture at the University of Ottawa. From 1979 to 1991 he was President and CEO of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies in Philadelphia, and Director of its press. Stolárik is a specialist in the history of immigration and ethnic groups in North America, with emphasis on the Slovak experience.
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