Slavonski arhivski i novinski zapisi o hrvatskim iseljenicima u SAD-u od druge polovice 19. stoljeća do 1905. godine
Slavonian Archive and Newspaper Records on Croatian Emigrants to the USA from the Second Half of the 19th Century to 1905

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the analysis of Slavonian archive and newspaper records and historiographic materials about Croatian emigrants in the USA from the second half of the 19th century to the year 1905. The causes of emigration were both economic and political: low cost-effectiveness of soil cultivation and smallholding; industrialisation and the growth of the number of wage labourers; rapid growth of population, intensive Germanisation and Hungarisation of Slavonia, mostly through the Greater-Hungarian July Action Programme, party clashes, and population disintegration. The Slavonian population was mostly oriented towards mining and agricultural areas and industrial and commercial cities of the United States. Emigration to America was not frequent until the end of the 19th century, so that immigration to Slavonia from Bosnia and Herzegovina was at one time more disturbing due to the uprisings there.

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