God's Playground: A History of Poland, 1795 to the Present - Brossura

Davies, Norman

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0231128193 ISBN 13: 9780231128193

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2005

Riassunto

The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present. Abandoning the traditional nationalist approach to Polish history, Norman Davies instead stresses the country's rich multinational heritage and places the development of the Jewish German, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian communities firmly within the Polish context.

Davies emphasizes the cultural history of Poland through a presentation of extensive poetical, literary, and documentary texts in English translation. In each volume, chronological chapters of political narrative are interspersed with essays on religious, social, economic, constitutional, philosophical, and diplomatic themes.

This new edition has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Norman Davies is chair of the history department, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, at the University of London.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0231128193
• ISBN 13: 9780231128193
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 591