God's Playground A History of Poland
Volume 1: The Origins to 1795
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Product details:
- Edition number and title Origins to 1795 v.1
- Edition number 2 Rev ed, Revised
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 February 2005
- ISBN 9780199253395
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages488 pages
- Size 234x156x26 mm
- Weight 736 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8pp halftone plates, numerous maps and figures 0
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Short description:
This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The author adopts a sceptical stance towards all existing interpretations of Polish history and attempts to bring a strong dose of common sense to his theme. He presents the most comprehensive survey in English of this frequently maligned and usually misunderstood country.
MoreLong description:
This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently fallen prey to interested parties. Professor Norman Davies adopts a sceptical stance towards all existing interpretations and attempts to bring a strong dose of common sense to his theme. He presents the most comprehensive survey in English of this frequently maligned and usually misunderstood country.
Review from previous edition Anyone who wants to understand what has happened in Poland must dig into Norman Davies's great opencast mine of Polish History...it is very accessible, strewn with vivid quotations from original sources, good anecdotes, and much verse...
Table of Contents:
Millenium: A Thousand Years of History
Polska: The Polish Land
Piast: The Polanian Dynasty (to 1370)
Anjou: The Hungarian Connection (1370-1386)
Jogaila: The Lithuanian Union (1386-1572)
Antemurale: The Bulwark of Christendom (Religion)
The Nobelman's Paradise (Society)
Handel: The Baltic Grain Trade (Economy)
Miasto: The Vicissitudes of Urban Life (The Cities)
Anarchia: The Noble Democracy (The Constitution)
Serenissima: Diplomacy in Poland - Lithuania (Foreign Affairs)
Valois: The French Experiment (1572-1575)
Bathory: The Transylvanian Victor (1576-1586)
Vasa: The Swedish Connection (1587-1668)
Michal: The Austrian Candidate (1669-1673)
Sobieski: Terror of the Turk (1674-1696)
Wettin: The Saxon Era (1697-1763)
Agonia: The End of the Eussian Protectorate (1764-1795)
