Title:
Poland : a history / Adam Zamoyski.
Author:
Zamoyski, Adam.
Publication Information:
New York : Hippocrene Books, 2012.
Call Number:
DK4140 .Z34 2012
Abstract:
Tracing Poland's complex development from the Middle Ages to present day, Zamoyski examines the country's political, economic, and military struggles, as well as its culture, art, and richly varied society through the ages.
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Edition:
Hippocrene books paperback ed.
ISBN:
9780781813013
Physical Description:
xxiii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
People, land and crown -- Between east and west -- The Jagiellon experience -- Religion and politics -- Kingdom and Commonwealth -- The reign of Erasmus -- Democracy versus dynasty -- Champions of God -- A biblical flood -- Morbus comitialis -- The reign of anarchy -- Renewal -- Gentle revolution -- Armed struggle -- Insurgency -- The Polish question -- Captivity -- Nation-building -- The Polish republic -- War -- The cost of victory -- Trial and error -- Papal power -- The third republic.
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