Multicultural Commonwealth

Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives

AvStanley Bill,Simon Lewis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del i serien Russian and East European Studies

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Beskrivning

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) was once the largest country in Europe—a multicultural republic that was home to Belarusians, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Poles, Ruthenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, and other ethnic and religious groups. Although long since dissolved, the Commonwealth remains a rich resource for mythmaking in its descendent modern-day states, but also a source of contention between those with different understandings of its history. Multicultural Commonwealth brings together the expertise of world-renowned scholars in a range of disciplines to present perspectives on both the Commonwealth’s historical diversity and the memory of this diversity. With cutting-edge research on the intermeshed histories and memories of different ethnic and religious groups of the Commonwealth, this volume asks how various contemporary conceptions of multiculturalism can be applied to the region through a critical lens that also seeks to understand the past on its own terms.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-14
Mått:152 x 229 x 36 mm
Vikt:748 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Russian and East European Studies
Antal sidor:378
Förlag:University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:9780822948032

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Stanley Bill (Author) Stanley Bill is associate professor of Polish studies and director of the Slavonic Studies Section at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Czesław Miłosz’s Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity, coeditor of The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature, and translator of Miłosz’s novel The Mountains of Parnassus.Simon Lewis (Author) Simon Lewis is associate professor of Eastern and Central European cultural history at the University of Bremen. He is author of Belarus—Alternative Visions: Nation, Memory, and Cosmopolitanism, coauthor of Remembering Katyn, and coeditor of Regions of Memory: Transnational Formations.

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A major contribution to the field of Central and East European studies—indeed, to European studies more broadly, as it helps explain the conflicts that persist in the former Commonwealth lands and brings their shared history to light. One hopes it will be read widely as well as translated into the languages of the former Commonwealth.