Part 1: The Formation of the State and of the Nation 1. Early Origins 2. The First Kings 3. The Disintegration of the Kingdom 4. The German Colonization and the Mongol Invasion 5. The Reconstruction of the Kingdom 6. Casimir The Great Part 2: The Centuries of Poland’s Greatness 7. Jadwiga of Anjou 8. Grunwald and Horodlo 9. Varna and Danzig 10. The Zenith of a Dynasty 11. The Epoch of the First Congress of Vienna 12. The Union of Lublin Part 3: The Experiment of the Royal Republic 13. John Zamoyski 14. The Last Great Designs 15. The Deluge 16. John Sobieski 17. The Decay 18. The Regeneration 19. The Partitions Part 4: The Ordeal 20. Napoleonic Poland 21. Romantic Poland: The Insurrections 22. Romantic Poland: Her Poets 23. Organic Work 24. Waiting for Freedom Part 5: New Poland’s Tragedy 25. Resurrection 26. Reconstruction 27. Destruction 28. Ten Years of Trial 29. The Rise and Fall of Gomulka 30. Poland Under Gierek: The Failure of Consumer Communism 31. From Kania to Jaruzelski.
Biography
Oskar Halecki (1891-1973) was a Polish historian and Professor of Eastern European history at the University of Warsaw. He also taught International Relations at the University School of Political Sciences. After World War I Professor Halecki was part of the Polish delevation at the Versailles Peace Conference, and he was a member of the League of Nations Secretariat. From 1944 to 1961 he was Professor of Eastern European History at Fordham University, and from 1956 to 1961 he was Adjunct Professor of History at Columbia University. He was a foreign correspondent of the Royal Historical Society, London.
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