Danuta Mostwin by Beata Halicka
Exploring the life and contributions of Danuta Mostwin, a Polish American social scientist, writer, and chronicler of immigrant experiences, this book traces her journey from wartime Poland through post-war exile in Britain and the United States. It highlights her intellectual achievements, interdisciplinary research, and her literary works, which focus largely on women’s experiences of displacement and cultural negotiation in twentieth-century Europe and America. Her acclaimed literary work, recognized with numerous awards, was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006 and 2008.
The book integrates unpublished archival materials, personal correspondence, and oral interviews to provide a comprehensive portrait of Mostwin’s role in shaping Polish American identity, her pioneering contributions to social work and migration research, and her literary reflections on trauma, displacement, and identity. It offers fresh insights into post-war refugee movements, women’s intellectual history, and transnational migration.
Danuta Mostwin: At Home in Exile between Europe and America (1921–2010) will be invaluable to scholars and students working in the fields of modern European history, migration studies, ethnic and diaspora studies, gender studies, political science, sociology, anthropology, borderlands studies, and Holocaust/post-Holocaust studies.
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British Malta, 1798–1835
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The Historical Value of Myths
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The History and Politics of Star Wars
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Legal Pluralism as a Colonial Project in Africa
- Polish American Liaison
- Antisemitism and Philosemitism in Latin America, 1891–1991
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The Limits of Interdependence
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Unraveling Transnational Merchant Networks, ca. 1685–1825
- Migrants in the Rise of Social Protection
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Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews
- (Post)Colonial Ports
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How the World Hunger Problem Was not Solved
- Memory and the Holocaust
- Gender, Women and the Indian Emergency, 1975-1977
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Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century
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The Political History of British Aviation 1909-1949
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"Dangerous Vagabonds"
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Wealth Accumulation and Entrepreneurship in the Ottoman Empire, 18th to 20th Centuries
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Building Europe in New York
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Jewish Refugees and the International Community between the Two World Wars
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The Psychology of the Armenian Genocide
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Jewish Communal Advocacy in Post-War Australia
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Eight Armies on the Gallipoli Peninsula
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The Iranian Oil Crisis and Mossadegh in the Cold War, 1949-1953
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Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times
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Outdoor Adventures in the Soviet Union and the Post-Soviet Space
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Railways in the First World War, Volume 2
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The Making of a World Order
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Propaganda and Power in the Age of Globalization
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Communities of Resistance and Resilience in the Post-Industrial City
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Institutional Bricolage, Property Rights, and Social Practices in the Colonial World
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Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century
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The Origins of Anti-Authoritarianism
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The Chronicle of a People's War
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Networking and Career Strategies in Late Habsburg Monarchy and its Successor States
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The Boycott or the Bullet
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Missionary Mobility and the Cold War
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Museums in the Second World War
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Informal Alliance
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The Global History of the Balfour Declaration
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War and Displacement in the Twentieth Century
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Colonial Intellectual Property
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Khartoum, 1884-1885
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The Essential Speeches of the Cold War
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1982, Lebanon and the Road to War
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Appearance and Identity Crisis in Modern Indian History
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Fela Kuti, African Indigenous Knowledges, Politics, and Culture
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Süleyman Demirel
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Isolation
Beata Halicka is Professor of Contemporary History at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, and a leading scholar of wartime and postwar European history. Her research combines the study of individual life trajectories with broader social and cultural contexts. Her acclaimed books include Polish Wild West. Forced Migration and Cultural Appropriation in the Polish -German Borderlands, 1945–1948 (2020, German ed. 2013, Polish ed. 2015), recipient of the Identitas Award, and Borderlands Biography. Z. Anthony Kruszewski in Wartime Europe and Postwar America (2021, Polish ed. 2018, German ed. 2024). The latter reflects her internationally recognized expertise in transnational histories of Polish migrants
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| ISBN 13 | 9781041329503 |
| ISBN 10 | 1041329504 |
| Title | Danuta Mostwin |
| Author | Halicka Beata |
| Series | Routledge Studies In Modern History |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2026-08-23 |
| Number of pages | 508 |
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