Author: Nicholas V. KarasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Greek Immigrant Chronicles
Author: Nicholas V. KarasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Immigrant Chronicle
Author: Peter SkrzyneckiPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780702233876
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Peter Skrzynecki is a poet and fiction writer of Polish-Ukrainian descent. His poems are largely poems of reflection and observation, but in the course of their 'meditations' on experience they touch on the special pathos of immigrant families as they come to terms with a new and very foreign country.
"Demetrios is Now Jimmy"
Author: Lazar OdzakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This work explores the arrival of Greek immigrants to the southern urban areas, in the early 1900s, and their remarkably rapid adjustment and acculturation to life in the New South. The majority of these immigrants became modest entrepreneurs and achieved some economic prosperity, which was at the root of their successful settlement in the growing southern cities. Although there was no "melting pot," these newcomers swiftly adapted to the evolving American social, economic, and political tenets - as practiced in the South - even as they retained and adjusted their own deeply ingrained cultural and religious traditions.
Frank Maria
Author: Paul D. GarrettPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434300005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
An authorized biography of Frank Maria (1913-2001), a tough, compassionate battler for peace and justice for all parties in the war torn Middle East. Frank's lifetime service to God and nation are followed from his Depression-era upbringing in Lowell, MA, through the beginnings of a promising career in labor management and political analysis. As war breaks in 1967, however, Frank abandons his best interests to concentrate his talents, attention, and energies on making Americans aware of the tragedy facts of the Holy Land. Through the next several decades and repeated wars, Frank dogs politicians, religious leaders, and journalists about rethinking the one-sided approach to the Palestinian/Israeli question, which prevents peace. Had they heeded this voice from the wilderness, today's world would be far safer.
Middlesex
Author: Jeffrey EugenidesPublisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307401944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides’ witty, exuberant novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of a fantastic, absurd, lovable immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy. But there’s a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is a hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back in time, through a breathtaking review of the twentieth century, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie’s grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set our narrator’s life in motion. Middlesex is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. It’s a brilliant exploration of divided people, divided families, divided cities and nations -- the connected halves that make up ourselves and our world.
An Amulet of Greek Earth
Author: Helen PapanikolasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804010382
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An author of fiction and non-fiction, Papanikolas began writing down some of the stories she had heard growing up in a Greek immigrant community during the 1920s in a mining town in Utah. Later she incorporated studies of immigrants into her college courses about the state. Since the early 1970s, she has given talks to Greek Americans around the country, and here assembles stories of their experience and cultural traditions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Peoples and Empires
Author: Anthony PagdenPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307431592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Written by one of the world’s foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires—the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British—and their colonies, and the back-and-forth between “us” and “them,” culture and nature, civilization and barbarism, the center and the periphery. It’s the history of how conquerors justified conquest, and how colonists and the colonized changed each other beyond all recognition.
The Greek Immigrant and His Reading
Author: Mrs. Alison B. AlessiosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Education of an American Dreamer
Author: Peter G. PetersonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780446799072
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Full of sharp portraits and humorous, telling descriptions of the many statesmen and financiers Peterson has known over the years, "The Education of an American Dreamer" is a richly satisfying journey through a fascinating man's life--beginning in Kearney, Nebraska, as an eight-year-old manning the cash register, to Secretary of Commerce in Nixon's paranoid White House, to the tumultuous days of Lehman Brothers, and on to the creation of The Blackstone Group, one of the great financial enterprises in recent times.
Greek Immigration to the United States
Author: Henry Pratt FairchildPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
