1 S tudia S tudia Historica Historica S lovenica letnik 15 (2015), {t. S lovenica MATJAŽ KLEMENČIČ: Slovene National Homes in the U.S.A. MARUŠA VERBIČ KOPRIVŠEK: History of Slovenian Home in Denver, Colorado – Political Diversity as an Exception ADAM WALASZEK: Polish National Alliance in America in the Years 1895–1896 and the Foundation of the PNA Home in Chicago JERNEJ ZUPANČIČ: Spatial Structure of Slovene Ethnic Settlements in the USA. The Role and Sense of Spatiality among Diaspora Members BOGDAN KOLAR: Slovenian Members of Religious Orders and Communities in the United States as a Link between the Catholic Community in Slovenia and in the United States IRENA MARKOVIĆ: Baraga's and Pirc's Missionary Letters as a Source for Knowledge of the United States of America and Indians in Slovenia and Slovenian Members' Activities in the European Parliament MARTIN ŠÁMAL: Correspondence of Vojta Náprstek from Milwaukee (1848–1858) MIHA ZOBEC: Familial Networks of Exchange, Support and Solidarity as Expressed through Personal Correspondence MIRJAM MILHARČIČ HLADNIK: Children as Correspondents in the Epistolary Practices of Migrant Families ALEKSEJ KALC: "In This Way We Can Feel Closer": Audio Letters Fotografija na naslovnici / Photography on the cover: between Australia and Trieste/Trst lovenica P. Kazimir Zakraj{ek O.F.M (sl.wikipedia.org) REBEKA MESARIĆ ŽABČIĆ: Image of Croatia through the Eyes of S Croatian Immigrants in USA Fr. Kazimir Zakraj{ek O.F.M (sl.wikipedia.org) ^asopis za humanisti~ne in dru`boslovne {tudije Humanities and Social Studies Review istorica H 2015 tudia S 1 S tudia Historica S lovenica Studia Historica Slovenica Časopis za humanistične in družboslovne študije Humanities and Social Studies Review letnik 15 (2015), št. 1 ZRI DR. FRANCA KOVAČIČA V MARIBORU MARIBOR 2015 Studia Historica Slovenica ISNN 1580-8122 Časopis za humanistične in družboslovne študije / Humanities and Social Studies Review Izdajatelj / Published by ZGODOVINSKO DRUŠTVO DR. FRANCA KOVAČIČA V MARIBORU/ HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DR. FRANC KOVAČIČ IN MARIBOR http://www.zgodovinsko-drustvo-kovacic.si ZRI DR. FRANCA KOVAČIČA V MARIBORU/ ZRI DR. FRANC KOVAČIČ IN MARIBOR Uredniški odbor / Editorial Board dr. Ivo Banac (ZDA / USA), dr. Rajko Bratuž, dr. Neven Budak (Hrvaška / Croatia), dr. 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GABACCIA: Foreword – Structures and Sentiments: Changing Perspectives on Transatlantic Migrations .......................................................9 Član ki in raz pra ve / Pa pers and Es says MATJAŽ KLEMENČIČ: Slovene National Homes in the U.S.A. ........................... 29 Slovenski narodni domovi v ZDA MARUŠA VERBIČ KOPRIVŠEK: History of Slovenian Home in Denver, Colorado – Political Diversity as an Exception .......................................... 55 Zgodovina Slovenskega doma v Denverju, Kolorado – politična raznolikost kot izjema ADAM WALASZEK: Polish National Alliance in America in the Years 1895–1896 and the Foundation of the PNA Home in Chicago ..............71 Poljska narodna zveza v Ameriki v letih 1895–1896 in izgradnja doma PNA v Chicagu JERNEJ ZUPANČIČ: Spatial Structure of Slovene Ethnic Settlements in the USA. The Role and Sense of Spatiality among Diaspora Members .....87 Prostorska struktura slovenskih etničnih naselbin v ZDA. Vloga in pomen prostorskosti med člani slovenske diaspore BOGDAN KOLAR: Slovenian Members of Religious Orders and Communities in the United States as a Link between the Catholic Community in Slovenia and in the United States .....................105 Slovenski člani redovnih skupnosti v Združenih državah kot vez med katoliško skupnostjo v Sloveniji in v Združenih državah IRENA MARKOVIĆ: Baraga's and Pirc's Missionary Letters as a Source for Knowledge of the United States of America and Indians in Slovenia ....127 Baragova in Pirčeva misijonska pisma kot vir za poznavanje Združenih držav Amerike in Indijancev na slovenskem etničnem ozemlju S tudia Historica S lovenica MARTIN ŠÁMAL: Correspondence of Vojta Náprstek from Milwaukee (1848–1858) ................................................................................................149 Korespondenca Vojte Náprsteka iz Milwaukeeja (1848–1858) MIHA ZOBEC: Familial Networks of Exchange, Support and Solidarity as Expressed through Personal Correspondence .................................... 169 Družinska mreža izmenjave, podpore in solidarnosti, kot se je izražala v osebni korespondenci MIRJAM MILHARČIČ HLADNIK: Children as Correspondents in the Epistolary Practices of Migrant Families ....................................... 185 Otroci kot korespondenti v epistolarnih praksah migrantskih družin ALEKSEJ KALC: "In This Way We Can Feel Closer": Audio Letters between Australia and Trieste/Trst .......................................................... 201 "Na ta način se počutimo bliže": zvočna pisma med Avstralijo in Trstom REBEKA MESARIĆ ŽABČIĆ: Image of Croatia through the Eyes of Croatian Immigrants in USA ................................................................. 221 Podoba Hrvaške skozi videnje hrvaških priseljencev v ZDA Avtorski izvlečki / Authors' Abstracts ................... 235 Uredniška navodila avtorjem / Editor's Instructions to Authors ................................ 243 S tudia Historica S lovenica S tudia H istorica S lovenica Foreword Structures and Sentiments: Changing Perspectives on Transatlantic Migrations Most North American historians born before 1975 will remember the 1990s as a time of intellectual ferment and – in some quarters – a sense also of cri- sis; I certainly remember an academy abuzz with heated discussions. These had begun already in the mid-1980s in philosophy and literary studies and then cir- culated across disciplinary lines. The decade's growing scholarly enthusiasm for post-structuralism and post-modernism was sometimes summed up by a sim- ple phrase – the academy was experiencing a "linguistic turn" (or occasionally "cultural turn" or merely "culturalism").1 Ensuing changes in the social sciences were just as unsettling, pushing scholars in somewhat different directions as theorists in anthropology, geography, and sociology identified a "spatial turn"2 and developed new scholarly scales of analysis, moving beyond what critics would subsequently label methodological nationalism3 through greater atten- tion to globalization, its expanding (and changing) spatiality, its history, and its consequences.4 How could scholarship not be radically transformed with so many challenges being made to familiar methods, familiar topics, familiar 1 See the end-of-decade assessment Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt, eds., Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (Berkeley, 1999). 2 See Edward W. Soja, Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagine Places (Boston, 1996). 3 Andreas WImmer and Nina Glick Schiller, "Methodological Nationalism and Beyond: Nation State Building, Migration and the Social Sciences," Global Networks 2, 4 (2002): 301−334. 4 From a large literature, see Mike Featherstone, Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity (London−Newbury Park, Cal., 1990), Roland Robertson, Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (Newbury Park, Cal., 1992); David Harvey, "Globalization in Question," Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society 8, 4 (1995): 1−17. 9