SLAVONSKI ARHIVSKI I NOVINSKI ZAPISI O HRVATSKIM ISELJENICIMA U SAD-u U RAZDOBLJU OD 1905. DO 1910. GODINE
SLAVONIAN ARCHIVAL AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ON CROATIAN EMIGRANTS IN THE USA IN THE PERIOD FROM 1905 TO 1910

Summary/Abstract: Emigration from Slavonia into the USA from the end of the 19th century reached its culmination in the period from 1905 to 1910. The reasons for emigrating were of economical and political nature: low cost-effectiveness of land-cultivation and smallholding, industrialisation and the growth of wage labour, rapid increase of population, intensified Hungarisation of Slavonia through the Greater-Hungarian programme "Julian Action" in the railway and schools, party conflicts and ideological stratification of the Slavonian population (populism, Party-of Right movement, Austrophiles, Hungarophiles, coalitionists, South-Slavism, social democracy...). Slavonian emigration in America was first directed towards the mining areas of the states of Pennsylvania and Ohio, the agricultural areas of the states Kansas and Michigan and towards the great commercial and industrial cities: New York, Chicago, San Francisco...

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