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The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, C.1500-1795
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 145.00The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is often considered an 'aberration' where monarchy was reduced by the nobility to impotence, and which was consequently partitioned. However, historians' reappraisal of monarchy in early modern Europe calls for a reconsideration of the extent of Polish-Lithuanian 'divergence'. The essays of this collection assess... more...
When Nationalism Began to Hate
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 49.99In When Nationalism Began to Hate, Brian Porter offers a challenging new explanation for the emergence of xenophobic, authoritarian nationalism in Europe. He begins by examining the common assumption that nationalist movements by nature draw lines of inclusion and exclusion around social groups, establishing authority and hierarchy among "one's own"... more...
Polish Encounters, Russian Identity
Indiana University Press 2005; US$ 18.35At a time when Poland is emphasizing its distance from Russia, Polish Encounters, Russian Identity points to the historical ties and mutual influences of these two great Slavic peoples. Whether Poland adopted a hostile or a friendly stance toward Russia, the intense responses of Russian thinkers, writers,... more...
Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 44.95Examining the Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and other camps in 1940 one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War this book sheds new light on what took place and how the memory of the massacres long affected, and continues to affect, Polish-Russian relations. more...
Solidarity and Contention
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 70.50Solidarity and Contention deftly reconstructs the networks of protest in Communist Poland to show how waves of dissent during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s left an organizational residue that both instructed and enabled Solidarity and, ultimately, the Polish revolution. Using newly available documentary sources, Maryjane Osa shows how political challengers... more...
Poland under Communism
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 34.00History of Poland from the Second World War until the fall of Communism. more...
Warsaw
Reaktion Books 2004; US$ 31.00Warsaw has an unenviable reputation in the minds of many: often invoked as the epitome of the brutal environment produced by Soviet aesthetics and planning, its name conjures up a grey, faceless world of tower blocks and Orwellian governmental buildings; its image ? perhaps more so than that of any other city in the former Soviet block ? inextricably... more...
The Polish-German Borderlands
ABC-CLIO 1994; US$ 110.95This annotated guide to English language materials dealing with all aspects of the history of the borderlands since the 1700s gives special attention to conflicts between Germans and Poles and issues that are again critical in Central Europe. Students, teachers, and scholars will find this bibliography of over 1200 entries to primary sources, books,... more...
Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945
ABC-CLIO 1996; US$ 220.00The first authoritative comprehensive historical dictionary of Poland in English, this volume is destined to become the standard work. more...
The Other Prussia
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 40.00A study of national identity in Royal Prussia - the 'other Prussia', part of the Polish state from 1454 to 1793. more...









