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Modernisierung in der preußischen Provinz?
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012; US$ 64.65Hauptbeschreibung Pommern galt zeitgenössisch als eine der rückständigsten Regionen der preußischen Monarchie. Diese Wahrnehmung wurde von der Geschichtswissenschaft willig aufgegriffen, bestätigte sie doch die gängige Einschätzung eines in der Vormoderne verharrenden Ostelbiens. Die Studie untersucht den auch in Pommern stattfindenden Modernisierungsprozess.... more...
The Oder-Neisse Line
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 119.00When the United States and its World War II allies met at the Potsdam Conference to provisionally establish the Oder-Neisse line as Poland's western border and to acknowledge the removal of Germans from the area, they created a controversial Cold War issue that would not be resolved until 1990. American policy makers throughout those decades studied... more...
Frommer's Krakow Day By Day
Wiley 2011; US$ 13.99Krakow Day By Day is the perfect pocket guide book for independent travellers providing a practical, colourful format with useful, clear maps and expertly designed tours. The guide highlights the must-see places and offers knowledgeable opinion on where to stay, eat and shop. The Best Full Day Tours including Florianska Gate, Rynek Glowny, Church... 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...
Forgotten Land
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 16.99Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire?s farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Now it lives only in history and in myth. Since 1945, the territory has been divided between Poland and Russia, stretching from the border between Russia and Lithuania in the east... more...
Uprooted
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 35.00With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of prewar Poland. Uprooted examines... more...
The Idea of Galicia
Stanford University Press 2012; US$ 27.95The Idea of Galicia analyzes the intellectual and cultural history of a place as an idea: how Galicia, invented in the late eighteenth century as a geopolitical artifice, gradually acquired complex meaning over the course of its historical existence (and even beyond) for the peoples? Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews? who lived there and for the political... more...
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