The Routledge Handbook of the History of Poland

I The Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

1. The Beginnings of Poland: Between the Migration Age and Mieszko I
Robert Kasperski

2. Christianization
Halina Manikowska

3. From Renovatio Monetae to Melioratio Terrae: Patterns of Transformation and Modernization in the High-Medieval Piast Lands
Dariusz Adamczyk

4. From a Family Enterprise to the Crown of the Realm
Zbigniew Dalewski

5. Medieval and Early Modern Towns in the Former Polish Lands
Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska

6. Poland–Lithuania and the Steppe
Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska

7. The Commonwealth: A Monarchy in All but Name
Rimvydas Petrauskas

8. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a Designed, Real and Mythologized Republic
Urszula Augustyniak

9. The Demesne Economy and Serfdom in Early Modern Poland
Jaśmina Korczak-Siedlecka

10. Failed Confessionalization under Foreign Dynasties
Maciej Ptaszyński

11. Freedom Without Independence: The Commonwealth of Both Nations, 1697–1815
Piotr Ugniewski

II The Long Nineteenth Century

12. Modernization in the Polish Lands
Miloš Řezník

13. Polish Liberal Thought in the Nineteenth Century: Some Intellectual Problems
Maciej Janowski

14. Romanticism
Monika Rudaś-Grodzka and Danuta Zawadzka

15. The Inteligencja
Denis Sdvižkov

16. Phantom Poland and European Nationalism before 1914
Patrice M. Dabrowski

17. From Serf to Citizen: How Peasants Reshaped the Polish Nation
Keely Stauter-Halsted

18. Benign Colonialists?: Poland’s Ambiguous Position in the World of Empires
Piotr Puchalski

19. Politics in a New Key
Adam Kożuchowski

20. A Great Transformation?: Demographic Change, Industrialization and Economic Growth in the Nineteenth Century
Piotr Koryś

21. State and Revolution out of Empire: Poland in the Imperial and Global Perspective
Wiktor Marzec

22. A Battlefield for Everyone: The First World War in Polish History
Maciej Górny

23. Modern Antisemitism and the Jews
Katrin Steffen

24. The “Woman Question” in the Polish Lands in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Katarzyna Sierakowska

III The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

25. Health Crises and Social Problems in the Polish Lands during the Great War and Its Aftermath
Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska

26. Statism and Economic Liberalism
Klaus Richter

27. Authoritarian Rule
Piotr M. Majewski

28. Occupation
Jochen Böhler

29. The Holocaust – A Core Element of Polish History
Agnieszka Wierzcholska and Katrin Steffen

30. Post-War Reconstruction
Kornelia Kończal

31. Sovietization
Alexej Lochmatow

32. Migrations
Dariusz Stola

33. A Social History of Communist Poland: A Gender Perspective
Natalia Jarska

34. The Never-ending Second World War
Piotr M. Majewski

35. Political Opposition in Socialist Poland
Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ

36. Transformation: From Liberal Hopes to (Post)Populist Realities
Joanna Wawrzyniak

37. Post-Traumatic Sovereignty: The Case of Poland
Jarosław Kuisz

38. From Memory Politics to “Mnemonic Populism”: Poland’s Problems with the Past
Zofia Wóycicka

39. Struggling for Recognition: Poland’s Creation of a Self-Image for Foreign Audiences in a Historical Perspective
Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk

Biography

Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk is a Research Fellow at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland and deputy head of the Research Department of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. His fields of research are Polish–German relations, Polish cultural diplomacy, memory politics and textbook studies.

Maciej Górny is a Professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland and foreign member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research interests are East Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the history of historiography, geography and culture, discourses on race and the First World War.

Katrin Steffen is a Senior Researcher and Deputy Director at the Nordost-Institut Lüneburg at the University of Hamburg and a Fellow of the Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, where she was a Professor of European and Jewish History and Culture. Her research interests are Polish–Jewish–German relations in the twentieth century, memory studies and the transnational history of science.

"Like few earlier studies, this volume puts Polish developments in a Europe-wide and indeed world history context... It provides a scholarly, source- and argument-based, non-ideological discussion of Polish history...  I would vehemently recommend this volume as a wake-up call to look at Poland’s history in a new and scintillating way."

Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois University, USA