| A Concise History of Poland Revised Edition Contributor(s): Lukowski, Jerzy (Author), Zawadzki, Hubert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108440126 ISBN-13: 9781108440127 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Eastern Europe - General |
| Dewey: 943.8 |
| LCCN: 2018037314 |
| Series: Cambridge Concise Histories |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 7.6" W x 8.4" L (1.60 lbs) 526 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Choice 08/01/2019 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second World War, and reduced to satellite status of the Soviet Union after 1945. Yet it emerged in the vanguard of resistance to the USSR in the 1980s, albeit as a much more homogeneous entity than it had been in its multi-ethnic past. This book outlines Poland's turbulent and complex history, from its medieval Christian origins to the reassertion of that Christian and European heritage after forty-five years of communism. It describes Poland's transformation since 1989, and explains how Poland navigated its way into a new Commonwealth of Nations in the European Union. Recent years have witnessed significant changes within Poland, Eastern Europe and the wider world. This new edition reflects on these changes, and examines the current issues facing a Poland which some would accuse of being out of touch with 'European values'. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lukowski, Jerzy: - Jerzy Lukowski is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham. His most recent books are The European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century (2003) and Disorderly Liberty: The Political Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century (2010).Zawadzki, Hubert: - Hubert Zawadzki is an independent scholar and member of Wolfson College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of A Man of Honour: Adam Czartoryski as Statesman of Russia and Poland 1795-1831 (1992), and editor and translator of Irena Protassewicz's A Polish Woman's Experience in World War II (forthcoming). He has given talks on BBC radio and has appeared on BBC TV programmes involving Poland. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. |
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