Concise History of Poland

This new edition has been fully updated to reflect recent developments within Poland, Eastern Europe, and the wider world.

List of contents

List of illustrations and maps; Preface to the third edition; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; A note on Polish pronunciation; Chronology; Part I. Poland, to 1795: 1. Piast Poland, ?-1385; 2. Jagiellonian Poland, 1386-1572; 3. The Commonwealth of the two Nations, 1572-1795; Part II. Poland, after 1795: 4. Challenging the partitions, 1795-1864; 5. An era of transformation, 1864-1914; 6. Independence regained and lost, 1914-45; 7. Communism and the Cold War, 1945-89; 8. A new republic, 1989-; Geneaological charts of Polish rulers; List of heads of state, presidents, Communist Party leaders (1918-2018); Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Jerzy Lukowski is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham. His most recent books are The European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century (2003) and Disorderly Liberty: The Political Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century (2010).Hubert Zawadzki is an independent scholar and member of Wolfson College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of A Man of Honour: Adam Czartoryski as Statesman of Russia and Poland 1795–1831 (1992), and editor and translator of Irena Protassewicz's A Polish Woman's Experience in World War II (forthcoming). He has given talks on BBC radio and has appeared on BBC TV programmes involving Poland. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Product details

• Authors: Jerzy Lukowski, Jerzy (University of Birmingham) Lukowski, Jerzy (University of Birmingham) Zawadzk Lukowski, Lukowski Jerzy, Hubert Zawadzki, Hubert (Wolfson College Zawadzki, Zawadzki Hubert
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781108424363
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42436-3
• No. of pages: 528
• Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology