title: Bogdan Raditsa, the 1970s, and the Question of Croatian Emigration
abstract: The essays assembled in this collection were presented at a one-day symposium entitled “Cross-cultural Readings of the United States” held in Zagreb on May 24, 2014. This symposium thus offered a platform for Croatian Americanists and the colleagues from the neighboring countries to present their current research in particular as it reflects our “local” readings, interpretations, and imagining of the United States in its present or past aspects. The local variants of conceiving the United States