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Communism – Legitimacy – Nationalism
Nationalist Legitimization of the Communist Regime in Poland
Av Marcin Zaremba, Anna Wolff-Powęska
Inbunden, 2019
832 kr
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This book is devoted to the issue of nationalism in the latest Polish history and presents the subject on the basis of an enormous amount of source files left by the Polish United Workers Party. The work is a substantial input into the knowledge on People’s Poland which shows with precision how the …
Milieux de mémoire in Late Modernity
Local Communities, Religion and Historical Politics
Av Zuzanna Bogumił, Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
832 kr
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This book shows how vernacular communities commemorate their traumatic experiences of the Second World War. Despite having access to many diverse memory frameworks typical of late modernity, these communities primarily function within religious memory frameworks. The book also traces how they …
Displaced Memories
Remembering and Forgetting in Post-War Poland and Ukraine
Av Anna Wylegała, Anna Wolff-Powęska
Inbunden, 2019
806 kr
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The book is a comparative case study of collective memory in two small communities situated on two Central-European borderlands. Despite different pre-war histories, Ukrainian Zhovkva (before 1939 Polish Żółkiew) and Polish Krzyż (before 1945 German Kreuz) were to share a common fate of many …
Genocidal Empires
German Colonialism in Africa and the Third Reich
Av Klaus Bachmann, Anna Wolff-Powęska
Inbunden, 2018
874 kr
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Between 1904 and 1907, German soldiers, settlers and mercenaries committed mass murder in Africa. Can this be considered the first genocide of the 20th century? Was it a forecast of the Third Reich’s extermination policy in Central and Eastern Europe? This book provides the answer. Based on …
Fear Management
Foreign Threats in the Post-War Polish Propaganda. The Influence and the Reception of the Communist Media (1944-1956)
Av Bruno Kamiński, Anna Wolff-Powęska
Inbunden, 2019
814 kr
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The so-called ‘people's power’ – the communists – tended to make Poles afraid. At first – afraid of the Anglo-Saxon imperialists, then of the German revisionists, Zionist 5th column and ‘Kuroń and Michnik walking on the CIA’s leash’. The creation of the atmosphere of fear featuring Germans and …
Religious Liberty in the Educational System of the United States
From the 1980s to the Present
Av Iwona Zamkowska, Anna Wolff-Powęska
Inbunden, 2019
743 kr
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Nearly a third of religious liberty cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court addressed religion and education. Numbers that high, the problem definitely deserves consideration of international public. What were the main forces that shaped religious liberty in public education in one of its most …
Order in the Streets
The Political History of Warsaw’s Public Space in the First Half of the 19th Century
Av Aleksander Łupienko, Anna Wolff-Powęska
Inbunden, 2020
800 kr
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The book offers a wide perspective on the history of the capital of the Kingdom of Poland. The Kingdom was a small part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which passed under the rule of the Russian Tsars. The book presents the life of the streets, squares and parks, special events, the changing …
Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe
A Study in the Philosophy of History
Av Krzysztof Brzechczyn, Anna Wolff-Powęska
Inbunden, 2020
800 kr
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The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries was the result of a cumulative impact of various circumstantial factors. The weakness of cities in …
Return to the Promised Land.
The Birth and Philosophical Foundations of Zionism
Av Jacek Surzyn, Anna Wolff-Powęska
Inbunden, 2020
624 kr
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The book analyses the ideological and philosophical basis of Zionism, i.e. how Zionism solved the most important problems of Jews in the last decades of the 19th century: the problem of assimilation, the philosophical principles of national identity, the idea of self-liberation and the conception …
Poles in Kaiser’s Army On the Front of the First World War
Av Ryszard Kaczmarek, Anna Wolff-Powęska
Inbunden, 2020
835 kr
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The book describes the fate of Poles in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Poland did not exist for over a hundred years on the political map of Europe at that time, and the Poles had to fight for the opposite sides of the conflict: Germany, Austria, and Russia. In the German …
Earning Heavenly Salvation
Peasant Religion in Lesser Poland. Mid-Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Av Tomasz Wiślicz, Anna Wolff-Powęska
Inbunden, 2020
870 kr
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The book offers a comprehensive model of religious culture of peasants of the Lesser Poland in the early modern times. Its principal research topic is the influence of religion on the life and attitudes of peasants in the period of religious and social transformations resulting from the …
Increase Supply, Reduce Demand and Punish Severely
A Contextual History of Meat in Communist Poland
Av Maria Pasztor, Dariusz Jarosz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
809 kr
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A monograph on the social history of meat in Poland under the Communist regime (1945–1989). Based on an extensive archival research, which included the records of state institutions and the Communist party, the authors trace back the social and economic aspects of the production and circulation of …
History and the Unconscious
The Theoretical Assumptions and Research Practices of Psychohistory
Av Tomasz Pawelec, Anna Wolff-Powęska
Inbunden, 2021
767 kr
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This work represents the first truly comprehensive and non-biased history of psychohistory, a vanguard branch of historical scholarship that studies the psychological dimension of the past using principles of psychoanalysis and psychology as its theoretical ground. Tomasz Pawelec is an experienced …
Origins of the Welfare State
Polish Social Policy in the Period 1918–1939
Av Paweł Grata, Anna Wolff-Powęska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
636 kr
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The book focuses on the Polish social policy, its contextual (historical, organisational, conceptual, financial) conditionings, the institutions it fitted in, and primarily on the practical activities, undertaken by the state and other entities with regard to its individual domains. The time span …
