1st Edition
Explaining Economic Backwardness Post-1945 Polish Historians on Eastern Europe
By Anna Sosnowska
Copyright 2019
372 Pages
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Central European University Press
This monograph is about an exciting episode in the intellectual history of Europe: the vigorous debate among leading Polish historians on the sources of the economic development and non-development, including the origins of economic divisions within Europe. The work covers nearly fifty years of this debate between the publication of two pivotal works in 1947 and 1994. Anna Sosnowska provides an... Read more
Introduction, Chapter 1. In the Eyes of Others. Historical Sociology and its Image of Eastern Europe, Chapter 2. The Main Participants of the Debate. Sociological Historians in Postwar Poland, Chapter 3. Eastern Europe Compared to Other Regions. The Historical Geography of Development, Chapter 4. Development Studies: Sociology and History. Models of Backwardness, Chapter 5. Rentiers and Victims of Backwardness, and Pioneers of Progress. Images of Polish Society, Conclusion, Bibliography
Biography
Anna Sosnowska is Assistant Professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw.
