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Here All Is Poland: A Pantheonic History of Wawel, 1787-2010 by Petro Andreas Nungovitch 9781498569125
RRP: £109.00£100.16On 10 April 2010, Polish President Lech Kaczynski and First Lady Maria Kaczynska were killed in an airplane crash outside the city of Smolensk in western Russia, where they were flying to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet massacre of over... -
New Directions in the History of the Jews in the Polish Lands by Antony Polonsky 9788395237850
RRP: £31.99£30.93This volume is made up of essays first presented as papers at the conference held in May 2015 at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. It is divided into two sections. The first deals with museological questions-the voices of the... -
Warsaw is My Country: The Story of Krystyna Bierzynska, 1928-1945 by Beth Holmgren 9781618117588
RRP: £77.99£74.60This book tells the story of Krystyna Bierzynska, an acculturated Polish Jew, from her birth in Warsaw in 1928 up to the war's end in May 1945, when she was reunited with her brother, Dolek, an officer in the Polish II Corps. Bierzynska not only survived... -
Writing History in Medieval Poland: Bishop Vincentius of Cracow and the 'Chronica Polonorum' by Darius Von Guttner-Sporzynski 9782503569512
£108.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503569512Author Darius Von Guttner-SporzynskiFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 635g -
Passion and Restraint: Poles and Poland in Western Diplomacy, 1914-1921 by Denis Clark 9780228011880
£118.54Much of today's international order can be traced to the experimentations with governance that occurred in central Europe immediately after World War I. And though Western governments did not bring about the creation of Poland on their own or determine... -
Material Culture and Kinship in Poland: An Ethnography of Fur and Society by Siobhan Magee 9781501345623
RRP: £105.00£90.86In this ethnography of Krakowian society, Siobhan Magee explores essential questions on the relationship between fur and culture in Poland. How can wearing a fur coat indicate someone's political views in Krakow, beyond their opinion on animal rights?... -
Antisemitism in Galicia: Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy by Tim Buchen 9781789207705
RRP: £110.00£88.55In the last third of the nineteenth century, the discourse on the "Jewish question" in the Habsburg crownlands of Galicia changed fundamentally, as clerical and populist politicians emerged to denounce the Jewish assimilation and citizenship... -
Antisemitism in Galicia: Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy by Tim Buchen 9781805391395
RRP: £27.95£22.58In the last third of the nineteenth century, the discourse on the “Jewish question” in the Habsburg crownlands of Galicia changed fundamentally, as clerical and populist politicians emerged to denounce the Jewish assimilation and citizenship. This... -
Weaponizing the Past: Collective Memory and Jews, Poles, and Communists in Twenty-First Century Poland by Kate Korycki 9781805390503
RRP: £99.00£79.83In Poland, contemporary political actors have constructed a narrative of Polish history since 1989 in which Polish and Jewish involvement with communism has created a national concept of “we.” Weaponizing the Past explores the resulting implications of... -
World War II Historical Reenactment in Poland: The Practice of Authenticity by Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska 9780367515652
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores the consequences of the latest political shifts in Central Eastern Europe: the rise of right-wing parties and, among other things, politics becoming more invested in history. These phenomena coincide and overlap with the... -
Rethinking Modern Polish Identities: Transnational Encounters by Professor Agnieszka Pasieka 9781648250583
RRP: £110.00£95.42A critical examination of the category of "Polishness" - that is, the formation, redefinition, and performance of various kinds of Polish identities - from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Inspired by new research in the humanities and social... -
From Cotton and Smoke: Lodź - Industrial City and Discourses of Asynchronous Modernity, 1897-1994 by Agata Zysiak 9788323344889
RRP: £50.00£39.12This book considers Lodz as the capital of the Polish nineteenth century, and the history of this former textile hub, which now finds itself in central Poland, as one of struggle with modern change in Eastern Europe. The authors boldly challenge the... -
The Mentality of Partisans of the Polish Anti-Communist Underground 1944-1956 by Mariusz Mazur 9781032361635
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book is the first study of the mentality of anti-Communist underground fighters and presents, detail, their thinking, ideals, stereotypes and customs. The models and psychological processes that the volume analyzes are relevant not only to the... -
Sport and Polish Society in the Communist Era: Small Towns and History from Below by Marta Kurkowska-Budzan 9781032576879
RRP: £135.00£117.68Uses sport to shine new light on the contemporary history of Poland and Eastern EuropeDraws on rich source material including oral history, personal archives, and visual and literary sourcesReveals the realities of everyday life under a communist regime... -
New Media Behind the Iron Curtain - Cultural History of Video, Microcomputers and Satellite Television in Communist Poland by Piotr Sitarski
RRP: £42.00£33.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788323348719Author Piotr SitarskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, WydawnictwoPublisher Uniwersytet Jagiellonski,... -
Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria by Katarzyna Nowak
RRP: £85.00£73.81After World War II displaced more than sixty million people, Cold War politics opened global eyes and wallets to European displaced persons. The postwar experiences of more than three million forcibly displaced Polish people illuminate the painfully long... -
The Russians and Prussians in the Seven Years War by Alfred Rambaud
RRP: £32.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945430701Author Alfred RambaudFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Nafziger CollectionPublisher Nafziger CollectionWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 236mm... -
Individualism and the Rise of Democracy in Poland by Dr. Tomek Grabowski
£114.90A fascinating story of the rise of individualism in the formerly German Western Territories of Poland after World War II and how this new culture powered Poland's democratic-capitalist development. What does it take for a traditional society based on... -
Civic and Uncivic Values in Poland: Value Transformation, Education, and Culture by Sabrina P. Ramet
RRP: £81.00£74.50Poland, like many societies across the world, is becoming more polarized in diverse areas of life, as contending forces seek to advance incompatible agendas. The polarization over values in Polish politics was evident already before communism collapsed... -
Material Culture and Kinship in Poland: An Ethnography of Fur and Society by Siobhan Magee
RRP: £39.99£35.06In this ethnography of Krakowian society, Siobhan Magee explores essential questions on the relationship between fur and culture in Poland. How can wearing a fur coat indicate someone's political views in Krakow, beyond their opinion on animal rights?... -
Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 by Lenny A. Urena Valerio
RRP: £29.99£26.50In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities, Lenny Urena Valerio offers a transnational approach to Polish-German relations and nineteenth-century colonial subjectivities. She investigates key cultural dynamics in the history of medicine, colonialism, and... -
Entangled in Fear: Everyday Terror in Poland, 1944-1947 by Marcin Zaremba
RRP: £33.00£29.05"Fear is always experienced individually, and few experiences are as personal. There can be no collective fear without individual fear preceding it. A society's fear is born out of the convergence of individual experiences, when dozens, hundreds,... -
Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess Adam Zamoyski 9780008521684
RRP: £25.00£16.43Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man’s world. Her aristocratic position...