Polish and Polish-American Studies Series – serie
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52 produkter
Traitors and True Poles
Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939
Inbunden, 2003
651 kr
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During Poland's century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland's reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity. Polish-American immigrant writers revealed their persistent, passionate engagement with these issues, as …
Traitors and True Poles
Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939
Häftad, 2003
331 kr
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During Poland's century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland's reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity. Polish-American immigrant writers revealed their persistent, passionate engagement with these issues, as …
Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979
Häftad, 2003
372 kr
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Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz. Recognized and remembered as the most prominent site of Nazi crimes, Auschwitz has had tremendous symbolic weight in the postwar world.Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration is a history of the Auschwitz memorial …
Exile Mission
The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939–1956
Av Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann
Häftad, 2004
397 kr
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At midcentury, two distinct Polish immigrant groups—those Polish Americans who were descendants of economic immigrants from the turn of the twentieth century and the Polish political refugees who chose exile after World War II and the communist takeover in Poland—faced an uneasy challenge to …
Grasinski Girls
The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made
Häftad, 2004
347 kr
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The Grasinski Girls were working-class Americans of Polish descent, born in the 1920s and 1930s, who created lives typical of women in their day. They went to high school, married, and had children. For the most part, they stayed home to raise their children. And they were happy doing that. They …
Testaments
Two Novellas of Emigration and Exile
Häftad, 2005
234 kr
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Polish émigrés have written poignantly about the pain of exile in letters, diaries, and essays; others, more recently, have recreated Polish-American communities in works of fiction. But it is Danuta Mostwin's fiction, until now unavailable in English translation, that bridges the divide between …
Holy Week
A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Häftad, 2006
285 kr
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At the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, Irena, seeks the protection of her former lover, a young architect, Jan Malecki. By taking her in, he puts his own life and the safety of his family at risk. Over a four-day period, Tuesday through Friday …
Rome's Most Faithful Daughter
The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914–1939
Av Neal Pease
Inbunden, 2009
586 kr
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When an independent Poland reappeared on the map of Europe after World War I, it was widely regarded as the most Catholic country on the continent, as "Rome's Most Faithful Daughter." All the same, the relations of the Second Polish Republic with the Church—both its representatives inside the …
Rome's Most Faithful Daughter
The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914–1939
Av Neal Pease
Häftad, 2009
319 kr
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When an independent Poland reappeared on the map of Europe after World War I, it was widely regarded as the most Catholic country on the continent, as "Rome's Most Faithful Daughter." All the same, the relations of the Second Polish Republic with the Church—both its representatives inside the …
Origins of Modern Polish Democracy
Av M. B. B. Biskupski, James S. Pula m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
958 kr
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The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy is a series of closely integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish thought and practice. It begins with the transformative events of the mid-nineteenth century, which witnessed revolutionary developments in the socioeconomic and demographic …
Origins of Modern Polish Democracy
Av M. B. B. Biskupski, James S. Pula m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
455 kr
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The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy is a series of closely integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish thought and practice. It begins with the transformative events of the mid-nineteenth century, which witnessed revolutionary developments in the socioeconomic and demographic …
Borders of Integration
Polish Migrants in Germany and the United States, 1870–1924
Av Brian McCook
Inbunden, 2011
647 kr
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The issues of immigration and integration are at the forefront of contemporary politics. Yet debates over foreign workers and the desirability of their incorporation into European and American societies too often are discussed without a sense of history. McCook's examination questions static …
Borders of Integration
Polish Migrants in Germany and the United States, 1870–1924
Av Brian McCook
Häftad, 2011
367 kr
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The issues of immigration and integration are at the forefront of contemporary politics. Yet debates over foreign workers and the desirability of their incorporation into European and American societies too often are discussed without a sense of history. McCook's examination questions static …
Between the Brown and the Red
Nationalism, Catholicism, and Communism in Twentieth-Century Poland—the Politics of Bolesław Piasecki
Inbunden, 2012
622 kr
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Between the Brown and the Red captures the multifaceted nature of church-state relations in communist Poland, relations that oscillated between mutual confrontation, accommodation, and dialogue. Ironically, under communism the bond between religion and nation in Poland grew stronger. This happened …
Between the Brown and the Red
Nationalism, Catholicism, and Communism in Twentieth-Century Poland—the Politics of Bolesław Piasecki
Häftad, 2012
378 kr
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Between the Brown and the Red captures the multifaceted nature of church-state relations in communist Poland, relations that oscillated between mutual confrontation, accommodation, and dialogue. Ironically, under communism the bond between religion and nation in Poland grew stronger. This happened …
Clash of Moral Nations
Cultural Politics in Pilsudski's Poland, 1926–1935
Av Eva Plach
Häftad, 2006
338 kr
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The May 1926 coup d'état in Poland inaugurated what has become known as the period of sanacja or "cleansing." The event has been explored in terms of the impact that it had on state structures and political styles. But for both supporters and opponents of the post-May regime, the sanacja was a …
Taking Liberties
Gender, Transgressive Patriotism, and Polish Drama, 1786–1989
Inbunden, 2015
1177 kr
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As narrow, nationalist views of patriotic allegiance have become widespread and are routinely invoked to justify everything from flag-waving triumphalism to xenophobic bigotry, the concept of a nonnationalist patriotism has vanished from public conversation. Taking Liberties is a study of what may …
Taking Liberties
Gender, Transgressive Patriotism, and Polish Drama, 1786–1989
Häftad, 2015
446 kr
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As narrow, nationalist views of patriotic allegiance have become widespread and are routinely invoked to justify everything from flag-waving triumphalism to xenophobic bigotry, the concept of a nonnationalist patriotism has vanished from public conversation. Taking Liberties is a study of what may …
Politics of Morality
The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland
Inbunden, 2015
868 kr
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After the fall of the state socialist regime and the end of martial law in 1989, Polish society experienced both a sense of relief from the tyranny of Soviet control and an expectation that democracy would bring freedom. After this initial wave of enthusiasm, however, political forces that had lain …
Politics of Morality
The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland
Häftad, 2015
333 kr
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After the fall of the state socialist regime and the end of martial law in 1989, Polish society experienced both a sense of relief from the tyranny of Soviet control and an expectation that democracy would bring freedom. After this initial wave of enthusiasm, however, political forces that had lain …
Marta
A Novel
Inbunden, 2018
722 kr
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Eliza Orzeszkowa was a trailblazing Polish novelist who, alongside Leo Tolstoy and Henryk Sienkiewicz, was a finalist for the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature. Of her many works of social realism, Marta (1873) is among the best known, but until now it has not been available in English. Easily a peer …
Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities
Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840–1920
Inbunden, 2019
843 kr
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In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities, Lenny Ureña 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 migration that bring Germany and Prussian …
Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities
Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840–1920
Häftad, 2021
397 kr
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In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities, Lenny Ureña 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 migration that bring Germany and Prussian …
Ordinary Life?
The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918–1996
Av Anna Müller
Inbunden, 2023
601 kr
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Tonia Lechtman was a Jew, a loving mother and wife, a Polish patriot, a committed Communist, and a Holocaust survivor. Throughout her life these identities brought her to multiple countries-Poland, Palestine, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Israel-during some of the most pivotal and …
Ordinary Life?
The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918–1996
Av Anna Müller
Häftad, 2024
334 kr
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Tonia Lechtman was a Jew, a loving mother and wife, a Polish patriot, a committed Communist, and a Holocaust survivor. Throughout her life these identities brought her to multiple countries-Poland, Palestine, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Israel-during some of the most pivotal and …
Pole/Jew
History, Literature, Identity, Future
Av John J. Bukowczyk, Halina Filipowicz
Inbunden, 2025
902 kr
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Pole/Jew brings together a group of scholars-about half of them Jewish, about half of them ethnic Poles-from the United States, Poland, the United Kingdom, and Canada and enlists their diverse methodological and generational perspectives to push debates over Polish-Jewish relations beyond …
Pole/Jew
History, Literature, Identity, Future
Av John J. Bukowczyk, Halina Filipowicz
E-bok, 2025
1222 kr
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Pole/Jew brings together a group of scholars-about half of them Jewish, about half of them ethnic Poles-from the United States, Poland, the United Kingdom, and Canada and enlists their diverse methodological and generational perspectives to push debates over Polish-Jewish relations beyond …
Pole/Jew
History, Literature, Identity, Future
Av John J. Bukowczyk, Halina Filipowicz
Häftad, 2026
418 kr
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Pole/Jew brings together a group of scholars-about half of them Jewish, about half of them ethnic Poles-from the United States, Poland, the United Kingdom, and Canada and enlists their diverse methodological and generational perspectives to push debates over Polish-Jewish relations beyond …
Traitors and True Poles
Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939
E-bok, 2003
538 kr
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During Poland's century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland's reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity. Polish-American immigrant writers revealed their persistent, passionate engagement with these issues, as …
Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979
E-bok, 2003
575 kr
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Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz. Recognized and remembered as the most prominent site of Nazi crimes, Auschwitz has had tremendous symbolic weight in the postwar world.Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration is a history of the Auschwitz memorial …
