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God's Playground: A History of Poland, Volume I: The Origins to 1795 / Edition 2

God's Playground: A History of Poland, Volume I: The Origins to 1795 / Edition 2

by Norman Davies
God's Playground: A History of Poland, Volume I: The Origins to 1795 / Edition 2
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ISBN-10:
0231128177
ISBN-13:
9780231128179
Pub. Date:
05/31/2005
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10:
0231128177
ISBN-13:
9780231128179
Pub. Date:
05/31/2005
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
God's Playground: A History of Poland, Volume I: The Origins to 1795 / Edition 2

God's Playground: A History of Poland, Volume I: The Origins to 1795 / Edition 2

by Norman Davies

Overview

The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present. Abandoning the traditional nationalist approach to Polish history, Norman Davies instead stresses the country's rich multinational heritage and places the development of the Jewish German, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian communities firmly within the Polish context.

Davies emphasizes the cultural history of Poland through a presentation of extensive poetical, literary, and documentary texts in English translation. In each volume, chronological chapters of political narrative are interspersed with essays on religious, social, economic, constitutional, philosophical, and diplomatic themes.

This new edition has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780231128179
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 05/31/2005
Series: God's Playground: A History of Poland , #1
Edition description: revised edition
Pages: 638
Sales rank: 225,276
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Norman Davies is chair of the history department, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, at the University of London.

Table of Contents

Maps and Diagrams
Illustrations
Notes on the Illustrations
Chronology I. Introduction: The Origins to 15721. Millenium: A Thousand Years of History (Historiography)
2. Polska: The Polish Land (Historical Geography)
3. Piast: The Polonian Dynasty (to 1370)
4. Anjou: The Hungarian Connection (1370-1386)
5. Jogaila: The Lithuanian Union (1386-1572)II. The Life and Death of the Polish-Lithuanian Republic (1569-1795)6. Antemurale: The Bulwark of Christendom (Religion)
7. Szlachta: The Nobleman's Paradise (Society)
8. Handel: The Baltic Grain Trade (Economy)
9. Miasto: The Vicissitudes of Urban Life (The Cities)
10. Anarchia: The Noble Democracy (Constitution)
11. Serenissima: Diplomacy in Poland-Lithuania (Foreign Affairs)
12. Valois: The French Experiment (1572-1575)
13. Bathory: The Transylvanian Victor (1576-1586)
14. Vasa: The Swedish Connection (1587-1668)
15. Michal: The Austrian Connection (1669-1673)
16. Sobieski: Terror of the Turk (1674-1696)
17. Wettin: The Saxon Era (1697-1763)
18. Agonia: The End of the Russian Protectorate (1764-1795)Notes on the TextIndex
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