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The Polish Peasant in Europe and America was the culmination of research by American sociologist William I. Thomas and Polish scholar Florian Znaniecki, carried out primarily during their time at the University of Chicago and supported by a substantial grant from millionaire Helen Culver.
One rainy day Professor Thomas took a morning stroll in the back alley of the Polish community on the West Side of Chicago. There exist various accounts of his lonely wandering in the immigrant section. One story is told by Morris Janowitz who, in the Introduction to Thomas' selected pa pers, wrote:
Thomas and Znaniecki’s main focus was on the ways in which Polish peasants turned into economically rational social actors in Poland and in the United States. In
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The Preah Thong[2] and Neang Neakii[3] statue symbolises the birth of Khmer land, culture, traditions and civilisation of Cambodia. The statue is 21 metres tall, on a pedestal 6.34 metres high (27.34 metres in total), and weighs 60 tonnes, being the largest copper statue in Cambodia, facing the sea.
