Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives – serie
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History of Polish Mathematics
A Cultural Perspective from Origins to Modernity
Av Roman Duda
Inbunden, 2026
885 kr
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The book traces the history of mathematics in the Polish lands from pagan times (the tenth century AD) to the present, with particular attention to the era inaugurated by the reforms of the National Education Commission (1773–1794), through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries until recently. …
Miron Białoszewski: Radical Quest Beyond Dualisms
Inbunden, 2012
523 kr
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Miron Białoszewski: Radical Quest Beyond Dualisms is an innovative and challenging work of literary scholarship that examines Białoszewski’s artistic praxis as a certain philosophical proposition. It differs from the earlier critical approaches to the writings of this writer in as much as it …
Unequal Friendship
The Patron-Client Relationship in Historical Perspective
Av Antoni Mączak, Jaroslaw Fazan
Inbunden, 2017
1173 kr
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This book analyzes the patron-client relationship over both space and time. It covers such areas of the globe as Europe, Africa and Latin America, and such periods in time as ancient Rome, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Poland, as well as twentieth-century America. It also analyzes clientelism …
Between State and Church
Confessional Relations from Reformation to Enlightenment: Poland – Lithuania – Germany – Netherlands
Av Wojciech Kriegseisen, Alex Shannon
Inbunden, 2015
1276 kr
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The different theoretical notions and practices of the relations between the state and religious communities in early modern Europe constitute one of the most interesting problems in historiography. Moving away from a simple «toleration» versus «non-toleration» dichotomy, the author sets out to …
Warlikowski: Extra Ecclesiam
Translated by Soren Gauger
Inbunden, 2014
603 kr
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Krzysztof Warlikowski’s work stands among the most remarkable phenomena in post-1989 European theater. This book joins Warlikowski’s theater with the dynamic changes in Polish society following 1989, using strategies borrowed from psychoanalysis, theater anthropology, performance studies, and …
Music in Literature
Perspectives of Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature- Translated by Lindsay Davidson
Inbunden, 2014
964 kr
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This book captures links between music and literature in the light of recent proposals from theorists of intertextuality and comparative literature, and at the same time diagnoses the current state of comparative literature as a field of literary research. The issue of literary score, namely the …
Polish-French Relations, 1944-1989
Translated by Alex Shannon
Av Dariusz Jarosz, Maria Pasztor
Inbunden, 2015
1260 kr
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This monograph is a summary of research in twentieth-century Polish-French relations conducted by the authors over the course of many years. This relationship is shown against the background of the dynamic international situation. The structure for arguments made in this work consists of events …
Sienkiewicz’s Bodies
Studies of Gender and Violence
Inbunden, 2014
1105 kr
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Sienkiewicz’s Bodies focuses on the work of the most popular Polish writer from the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. It discusses the surprising success of Sienkiewicz’s writing in relation to the dissection of optimistic illusion that takes place during a reading …
Chauvinism, Polish Style
The Case of Roman Dmowski (Beginnings: 1886–1905)
Inbunden, 2016
1009 kr
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The book addresses the genesis of Polish integral nationalism and the role of Roman Dmowski as a co-founder of this phenomenon in the development of Polish political thought at the fin-de-sicle. Based on extensive documentary research, it attempts to show a broader picture of modern Polish …
History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
State – Society – Culture – Editorial work by Iwo Hryniewicz – Translated by Grażyna Waluga (Chapters I–V) and Dorota Sobstel (Chapters VI–X)
Inbunden, 2015
1408 kr
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The book presents an outline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the 16th to the 18th century and offers a view of the realities of political life, organization of the judiciary, the economy, coexistence of different ethnic groups and religions, high and popular culture and achievements of …
Tadeusz Kantor Today
Metamorphoses of Death, Memory and Presence- Translated by Anda MacBride
Av Katarzyna Fazan, Anna R. Burzynska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1267 kr
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This book is a compendium of texts by international authors which reflect on Tadeusz Kantor’s art in a broad range of contexts. The studies include works of prominent art historians, theatrologists and artists. The present revisiting of Kantor’s artistic œuvre reflects a contemporary …
Absent Culture
The Case of Polish Livonia
Inbunden, 2013
1041 kr
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The book forms a monograph of the local culture of the old Polish Livonia, practically absent in contemporary humanistic research. It includes historical and anthropological recapitulation of the phenomenon, but it also tries to describe cultural mechanisms characteristic in the so-called border …
Literature as a Medium for Memory
The Universe of Sholem Asch’s Novels
Inbunden, 2013
1031 kr
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The book focuses on the presentation of some basic figures of memory that are present in the twenty-six novels by the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch. This study shows how memory is crystallized in the experience of surrounding landscapes and nature, and particularly in the reality shaped by man: towns …
Water, Towns and People
Polish Lands against a European Background until the Mid-16th Century
Inbunden, 2015
1080 kr
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The book describes the functions of water in Polish towns from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the Early-Modern Era against a wide European background. It presents the issue of water supply in the context of the town as a complex social and economic organism, taking into account social …
Italians in Early Modern Poland
Translated by Katarzyna Popowicz
Inbunden, 2015
1267 kr
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The book provides a panorama of Italian migrants’ activities in Polish economy, political life and, above all, culture. The motivations of Italians who decided to travel to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and quite often settled there permanently, the reasons which made this migration possible …
Book versus Power
Studies in the Relations between Politics and Culture in Polish History
Av Jacek Soszyński, Agnieszka Chamera-Nowak
Inbunden, 2015
1001 kr
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This volume considers the various interactions between the culture of the book and politics in Polish history. Each of the fourteen authors deals with a different topic, chronologically starting with the beginnings of the early Piast monarchy in the 10th century up to contemporary times: for …
Polish Queer Modernism
Inbunden, 2015
786 kr
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This book is a study of twentieth century Polish literature in the contexts of queer theory, psychoanalysis and modernism studies. It presents readings of well-known authors such as Witold Gombrowicz or of authors gaining international fame such as Miron Białoszewski, as well as essays on other …
Jew. The Eternal Enemy?
The History of Antisemitism in Poland
Av Alina Cała, Mikołaj Golubiewski
Inbunden, 2018
846 kr
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This book is the first monograph that provides a wholesome overview of the history of Antisemitism in Poland. The author critically analyzes the Polish manifestation of the gruesome phenomenon against the backdrop of historical events in all Europe, as she traces the formation of the ideology and …
Religiousness in the Late Middle Ages
Christianity and Traditional Culture in Central and Eastern Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Av Stanislaw Bylina, Jaroslaw Fazan
Inbunden, 2019
656 kr
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This book is devoted to the religiosity of the medieval Christian masses in Central and Eastern Europe and its relationship with the traditional cultures of that time. Addressing such topics as the common instruction of the three prayers and the Decalogue, "Christian" magic in everyday life, the …
Face in Trouble – From Physiognomics to Facebook
Av Olga Szmidt, Katarzyna Trzeciak
Inbunden, 2017
603 kr
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This book analyzes unobvious relations between historical definitions of the face and its contemporary usage in popular culture and social media, like Facebook or Instagram. Bringing together a wide range of methodologies, it includes essays from manifold disciplines of the humanities such as …
On Cyprian Norwid. Studies and Essays
Vol. 1: Syntheses
Av Agata Brajerska-Mazur, Edyta Chlebowska
Inbunden, 2019
884 kr
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The book is the first volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors. The impact of Norwid’s oeuvre does not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless issues, such as the moral and spiritual condition …
Ryszard Kapuściński. Biographie d'Un Écrivain
Av Beata Nowacka, Zygmunt Ziątek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
795 kr
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Ce livre présente la vie et de l'œuvre de Ryszard Kapuściński, un des plus grands écrivains-reporters du XXe siècle dans le domaine du journalisme d'opinion, des correspondances de presse, des récits, de la photographie, des notes essayistiques et de la poésie.
Dawning of Christianity in Poland and across Central and Eastern Europe
History and the Politics of Memory
Av Igor Kąkolewski, Przemyslaw Urbánczyk m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
670 kr
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This book covers two fields of research. The first part of the volume includes essays authored by Polish, German, Czech, and Ukrainian archeologists and historians on the genesis and unique nature of the roads whereby Christianization proceeded in Polish lands in the early Middle Ages in the …
Mediating the Otherworld in Polish Folklore
A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective
Av Ewa Masłowska, Jaroslaw Fazan
Inbunden, 2019
814 kr
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This book analyses the ways of conceptualising and interpreting the interaction between physical and metaphysical worlds in Polish folklore. A linguistic and anthropological analysis offered in this study focuses primarily on myth, ritual and symbol as reflected in language (dialect lexis, …
Tolerated Evil
Prostitution in the Kingdom of Poland in the Nineteenth Century
Av Jolanta Sikorska-Kulesza, Jaroslaw Fazan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
954 kr
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In the nineteenth century, state policy towards prostitution was primarily shaped by an assessment of its role in spreading venereal diseases. In this book, the author traces normative and organisational efforts of the authorities of the Kingdom of Poland, which sought to maintain control over …
Placing Poland at the heart of Irishness
Irish political elites in relation to Poland and the Poles in the first half of the nineteenth century
Av Adam Kucharski, Jaroslaw Fazan
Inbunden, 2020
818 kr
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The main theme and objective of this book is the evolution of the Irish attitude towards Poland and the Poles during the first half of the nineteenth century. The book explores advanced Irish-Polish relations, emphasising the place of the Polish Question in the process of shaping modern Irish …
Polish Reason of State in Austria
The Poles in the Political Life of Austria in the Period of the Dual Monarchy (1867–1918)
Inbunden, 2020
835 kr
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The monograph describes the history of the Polish diaspora in the Habsburg monarchy in the historical, institutional, legal, political, and organizational context. In the period of the Dual Monarchy (1867–1918), the Poles who lived under the Austro-Hungarian regime sought to influence the fate of …
Messengers of the Free Word
Paris – Prague – Warsaw, 1968–1971
Av Bartosz Kaliski, Jaroslaw Fazan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
835 kr
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The book presents an important and well known but so far not described episode in the history of banned books in the communist Poland – the activity of the so-called Tatra climbers. They were students and scholars from Warsaw, who initiated a risky cooperation with the centre of Polish political …
Civility in Uncivil Times
Kazimierz Moczarski's Quiet Battle for Truth, from the Polish Underground to Stalinist Prison
Av Anna Machcewicz, Miko¿aj Golubiewski
Inbunden, 2020
835 kr
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Kazimierz Moczarski (1907–1975) was a journalist, soldier, and political prisoner. His life exemplifies a Central European biography under Nazism and Comunism. The addictive and moving Civility in Uncivil Times reveals the story of a man who defended law and democracy all his life. Moczarski fought …
Poland and the Origins of the Second World War
A Study in Diplomatic History (1938–1939)
Inbunden, 2021
878 kr
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This monograph deals with Polish foreign policy shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. In tracing the diplomatic activity of foreign minister Józef Beck, it discusses six general problems: (1) the Polish political situation under the pressure of appeasement; (2) the project of …
