Slovaks of the Greater Mahoning Valley
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 36.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
19.09.2011
Verlag
Arcadia Publishing (SC)Seitenzahl
128
Maße (L/B/H)
23.4/16.8/0.8 cm
Gewicht
308 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7385-8259-7
The story of these immigrants to northeastern Ohio and their role in the development of the Mahoning Valley is told through rare and vintage images.
To many people, the sight of a sky aglow with flame, clouds of smoke, and the smell of sulfur in the air would bring thoughts of sermons about brimstone, fire, and punishment for a life of sin. But Slovak immigrants fleeing poverty in Europe saw a picture of hope and prosperity as they came to the Mahoning Valley of northeastern Ohio in response to the promise of jobs and good pay in the steel mills. These mills stretched in an almost unbroken chain from Warren, Ohio, through Youngstown and Campbell and on into Sharon and Farrell, Pennsylvania. From the 1870s, when the first Slovaks came to this area, to the present, there is no part of American life in which these Slovak Americans have not thrived while living the American Dream.
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