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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467158303321

Autore

Dabrowski Patrice M. <1960->

Titolo

Poland : the first thousand years / / Patrice M. Dabrowski ; design by Shaun Allshouse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Kalb, Illinois : , : NIU Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-5017-5740-7

1-60909-166-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (509 p.)

Disciplina

943.8

Soggetti

HISTORY / Europe / Eastern

Electronic books.

Poland History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pronunciation guide -- Part I. Poland in Europe -- Connecting with the West : the Piast Dynasty -- Embracing the East : the Lithuanian connection -- Spreading southward : the Jagiellonian moment in East-Central Europe -- Crafting a center : the commonwealth of both nations -- Part II. The Europe of Poland -- The commonwealth, part I : Sarmatia ascendant -- The commonwealth, Part II : Sarmatia besieged -- The commonwealth, part III : Sarmatia transformed -- Part III. Europe without Poland -- Sarmatia dissolved : "Poland has not yet perished" -- Poles in arms : "For our freedom and for yours" -- Poles are not Iroquois : the nation at work -- Part IV. Poland in Europe and the world -- Phoenix reborn : the Second Republic -- Phoenix ablaze : under Hitler and Stalin -- People's Poland : from Stalinism to Solidarity -- Epilogue: Poland's "return" to Europe.