God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 1. The Origins to 1795
10 MILLENIUM (Poland's Internal History under Stanislaw-August, 1880-6) and Smolenski's writings on the Polish Enlightenment con ...
A THOUSAND YEARS OF HISTORY 11 interruption of the thousand-year continuum of the Polish state. In the era of Nationalism, which ...
12 MILLENIUM explain the horrors of the recent past as the necessary trials of the nation's progress towards a better future. Ab ...
A THOUSAND YEARS OF HISTORY 13 is notable for the fact that the Polish lands were not seriously involved in the excitements bese ...
14 MILLENIUM Feudal Period into nine parts, where standard practice favoured a tripartite divi- sion into 'emergence', 'stabiliz ...
A THOUSAND YEARS OF HISTORY 15 resistance soldier from the eastern provinces, Jasienica had taken refuge in pre- historic and me ...
16 MILLENIUM kneeling by the roadside. Never, before or since, has anyone in the People's Republic enjoyed such a massive displa ...
A THOUSAND YEARS OF HISTORY 17 authorities, in contrast, were mounting a purely secular and political demon- stration. For them, ...
18 MILLENIUM the lands of the Archbishop of Gniezno. But it moved on to expound a theoret- ical discipline that exerted consider ...
A THOUSAND YEARS OF HISTORY 19 Poland's Catholic heritage was brought back into prominence at a stroke. People abroad suddenly w ...
20 MILLENIUM modest. Of course, there was a rush of books, films, and memoirs on everything that the Communist censorship had su ...
A THOUSAND YEARS OF HISTORY 21 historians of the People's Republic would run into the sands and that the next generation of scho ...
22 MILLENIUM 20th century of our resistance to totalitarianism. Determined Polish resistance [in the past] was resistance in the ...
2 POLSKA The Polish Land Few people have doubted that Poland's geography is the villain of her history. Trapped in the middle of ...
24 POLSKA about 154,000 km^2 (60,157 square miles), the Congress Kingdom between 1815 and 1874 about 117,000 km^2 (49,609 square ...
Map 2. Poland's Changing Territory ...
26 POLSKA Geopolitics, in fact, throws very little light on the specific problems of Polish History. It is relevant to the histo ...
THE POLISH LAND 27 the countryside, before the recent advent of modern industry, natural advan- tages created severe over-popula ...
28 POLSKA possible disadvantage. (The name of the spruce tree is supposed to derive from the Polish words z Prus 'from Prussia'. ...
THE POLISH LAND 29 Plains) and the Zaporozhe. It was populated by Cossacks, fugitives, colonists, and in safer areas by free Rut ...
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