History of Poland
By: by Aleksander Gieysztor ... [et al. ; translation from the Polish manuscript, Krystyna Cękalska ... et al.].
Contributors: Gieysztor, Aleksander.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: PWN, Polish Scientific Publishers
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Warszawa
Language: eng; pol
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 668
ISBN-13: 9788301003920
Subjects: Poland -- History.
Description: 668 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [622]-635.
Errata slip inserted.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Contents … 5; title: – Plates … 12; title: – Maps in the Text … 14; title: – Inserted Maps … 15; title: – Diagrams … 16; title: ◦; title: INTRODUCTION (S. Kieniewicz, translated by K. Cękalska) … 17; title: ◦; title: MEDIEVAL POLAND; title: (by A. Gieysztor , translated by K. Cękalska) … 23; title: ◦; title: I. BEFORE THE RISE OF THE POLISH STATE … 25; title: Slavic Antiquity … 25; title: The Slavic Wends and the Germans on the Fringes of Roman Influence … 28; title: Slavic Migrations and the Age of Crises (The Fifth to the Seventh Centuries) … 31; title: ◦; title: II. THE ORIGINS OF POLAND … 35; title: Economic Foundations of Poland in the Early Middle Ages	… 35; title: The Social Structure and Organization of Regional States … 37; title: The Origins of the Polanes … 41; title: The Spiritual and Mental Culture on the Eve of the Unification of the Polish State … 43; title: ◦; title: III. THE EARLY YEARS OF THE POLISH STATE … 47; title: The Consolidation of the State and the Christianization of Poland in 966 … 47; title: Polish Boundaries Established in the Odra and Vistula Basins … 50; title: The Polish Empire under Bolesław the Brave … 52; title: The Crisis of the First Polish Monarchy … 55; title: Economic and Cultural Achievements of the Architects of the State … 57; title: ◦; title: IV. THE AGE OF MATURITY OF THE POLISH MONARCHY … 65; title: Struggle for International Position and the Establishment of Royal Authority … 65; title: Feudal Disintegration Gains the Upper Hand (1138-1146) … 67; title: Economic Foundations of the Oligarchy. Village and Town Prior to the Mid-Twelfth Century … 71; title: Cultural Relations in the Eleventh Century and in the First Half of the Twelfth Century … 76; title: ◦; title: V. THE CENTURY OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SOCIAL TRANSITION … 80; title: Evolution of Settlements in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries … 80; title: Foreign Colonization and the Introduction of German Law in the Thirteenth Century … 84; title: The Duchies of Poland … 89; title: The Growing External Danger … 93; title: Efforts at Unification in the Late Thirteenth and the Early Fourteenth Centuries … 97; title: Transition of Polish Culture from the Romanesque to the Gothic … 102; title: ◦; title: VI. THE CORONA REGNI POLONIAE AT THE HEIGHT OF ITS POWER IN THE FOURTEENTH AND THE FIFTEENTH CENTURIES … 107; title: The State Apparatus Centralized … 107; title: Political Problems in the Reigns of Władysław the Short and Casimir the Great … 111; title: The Period of Angevin Rule … 114; title: The Union of Poland and Lithuania. The Struggle with the Teutonic Order … 114; title: Poland and Lithuania in the Hussite Period. The Union with Hungary … 117; title: The Growing Political Role of the Gentry. The Restitution of Crown Lands … 120; title: Casimir IV’s Foreign Policy in the Second Half of His Reign … 121; title: From Land Diets to a National Parliament … 122; title: Western Pomerania, Lubusz Land and Silesia in the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Centuries … 125; title: Economic Life in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries … 127; title: Culture in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries … 133; title: ◦; title: THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE GENTRY; title: (by J. Tazbir (VII-IX) and by E. Rostworowski (X-XIII), translated by L. Szwajcer and A. Szymanowski); title: ◦; title: VII. POLAND’S “GOLDEN AGE” (1492-1586) … 145; title: General Characteristics of the Period … 145; title: Between the Habsburgs and Muscovy … 146; title: The Social and Political Foundations of the “Democracy of the Gentry” … 149; title: The Movement for the “Execution-of-the-Law” … 154; title: Sigismund Augustus’ Foreign Policy … 156; title: The Reformation … 158; title: The First Interregnum and the Period of Elective Kings … 161; title: The Policy and Wars of Stephen Batory … 167; title: Batory and the Gentry … 169; title: Humanism in Poland … 170; title: The Development of a National Culture … 171; title: Renaissance Culture and Life … 176; title: ◦; title: VIII. THE COMMONWEALTH AT THE TURNING POINT (1586-1648) … 180; title: The struggle for power … 180; title: The Political Crisis of the Commonwealth … 181; title: The Zebrzydowski Rebellion … 184; title: Attempts to Check Russia … 186; title: The Conflict with Turkey … 188; title: The Agrarian Crisis … 190; title: The Growing Importance of the Magnates … 192; title: The Situation of Towns and Burghers … 196; title: The Doctrine of the Counter-Reformation … 197; title: The Methods of the Counter-Reformation … 199; title: The Election and Reign of Władysław IV … 203; title: The Cossack Question … 206; title: ◦; title: IX. THE COMMONWEALTH IN THE YEARS OF CRISIS (1648-1696) … 211; title: The Main Features of the Period … 211; title: The War with the Cossacks … 212; title: The Swedish Invasion of 1655 … 214; title: The Peace of Oliwa and the Eastern Question … 217; title: Attempts to Introduce Reform and the Lubomirski Rebellion … 218; title: War with Turkey … 220; title: The Anti-Turkish League … 221; title: Economic and Political Crisis … 223; title: Religious Problems … 225; title: Sarmatian Baroque … 226; title: Literature and Arts … 229; title: Education and Learning … 231; title: ◦; title: X. THE CRISIS OF SOVEREIGNTY (1697-1763) … 234; title: General View of the Eighteenth Century … 234; title: The Personal Union of Saxony and Poland … 235; title: The Northern War and the Struggle for the Crown … 237; title: The Confederation of Tarnogród and the Arbitration of Peter I … 239; title: The Struggle for the Polish Throne … 242; title: Demilitarization and Neutralization of the Commonwealth … 245; title: The System of “Anarchy” … 247; title: Western Pomerania and Silesia under Prussian Rule … 251; title: Sarmatian and Catholic Conformism … 253; title: Late-Baroque Culture … 256; title: The Forces of Progress … 261; title: The Political Deadlock … 265; title: ◦; title: XI. TENTATIVE REFORMS UNDER RUSSIA’S TUTELAGE (1763-1788) … 267; title: The Russo-Prussian Alliance … 267; title: The Plans of “The Family” … 268; title: The Interregnum (1763-1764) … 270; title: The First Years of Stanisiaw Augustus … 272; title: The Confederation of Radom and the Seym of 1767-1768 … 275; title: The Confederation of Bar (1768-1772) … 277; title: The First Partition ... 280; title: Constitutional Transformations (1773-1780) … 283; title: Government by the Permanent Council … 285; title: ◦; title: XII. THE SOCIETY AND CIVILIZATION OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT … 288; title: The Economic Revival … 288; title: The Social Transformation … 293; title: Conflict of Fashions and Ideals … 297; title: The Intellectual Upheaval … 300; title: ◦; title: XIII. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE INDEPENDENCE AND FOR THE REFORM OF THE COMMONWEALTH (1788-1794) … 305; title: The End of the Guarantee … 305; title: The Seym Control … 307; title: Political Literature … 310; title: The Constitution of 3 May, 1791 … 315; title: The Russian Intervention and the Second Partition (1792-1793) … 320; title: The Emigration and the Situation at Home … 322; title: The Insurrection of 1794 … 325; title: The Extinction of the Polish State … 332; title: ◦; title: POLAND UNDER FOREIGN RULE 1795-1918; title: (by S. Kieniewicz (XIV-XVII) and by H. Wereszycki (XVIII-XXI), translated by I. Ralf-Suez and J. Rodzińska); title: ◦; title: XIV. THE NAPOLEONIC ERA (1795-1815) … 337; title: The Enfranchisement of the Peasants and the National Uprisings … 337; title: Poland after the Third Partition … 338; title: Attitude of the Population and the Independence Movement	 … 340; title: The Legions … 342; title: Adam Czartoryski and the Puławy Plan … 345; title: Jena and Tilsit	 … 346; title: The Constitution of the Duchy of Warsaw … 348; title: Economic and Social Changes Within the Duchy of Warsaw … 351; title: The Year 1809	 … 354; title: The Downfall of the Duchy of Warsaw … 356; title: ◦; title: XV. THE KINGDOM OF POLAND AND THE NOVEMBER INSURRECTION (1815-1831) … 360; title: Pesasant Reform in Prussian Poland … 360; title: Establishment of the Congress Kingdom of Poland … 363; title: The Agrarian Question in the Kingdom of Poland … 367; title: The Beginnings of Modern Industry in the Kingdom of Poland … 369; title: Opposition and Conspiracy … 373; title: Neo-Classicism and Romanticism … 377; title: The Origins and the Outbreak of the November Insurrection, 1830 … 380; title: The Political Struggle to Control the Insurrection … 382; title: ◦; title: The Polish-Russian War … 384; title: The Revolutionary Left and the Peasant Question … 385; title: The International Situation and the Collapse of the Rising … 388; title: ◦; title: XVI. ON THE EVE OF AN AGRARIAN REVOLUTION (1832-1849) … 391; title: Reprisals after the Insurrection … 391; title: Economic Development in the Three Partition Zones … 392; title: The Liberal Camp and “Organic Work” … 394; title: The National Question in Silesia and Pomerania … 397; title: The Great Emigration … 398; title: Conspiracy Within Poland … 405; title: The Disaster of 1846 … 409; title: The Poznań Rising of 1848 … 413; title: Galicia in 1848 … 418; title: Poles in European Revolutionary Movements … 420; title: Polish Culture in the Romantic Period … 422; title: ◦; title: XVII. THE PERIOD OF THE JANUARY INSURRECTION (1850-1864)	 … 431; title: The Revolutionary Situation in Russia and Poland … 431; title: Patriotic Demonstrations … 435; title: The National Organization … 438; title: The Armed Struggle of 1863 … 441; title: The Emancipation of the Peasants and the End of the Period of National Risings … 445; title: ◦; title: XVIII. POSITIVISM AND TRI-LOYALISM. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE WORKING-CLASS MOVEMENT (1864-1885) … 449; title: The Aftermath of Disaster … 449; title: The Post-1863 Emigration … 450; title: The Russianization Policy in the Kingdom … 451; title: The Polish Provinces of Prussia. The Kulturkampf and the National Revival in Silesia … 456; title: The Autonomy of Galicia … 458; title: The Development of Industry in the Congress Kingdom … 463; title: Positivism … 465; title: The Beginings of the Polish Working-Class Movement … 473; title: The “Proletariat” … 476; title: The Beginnings of the Peasant Movement … 478; title: Three Provinces and One Nation … 479; title: ◦; title: XIX. THE FORMATION OF MASS POLITICAL PARTIES. NATIONALISM AND SOCIALISM (1885-1904) … 482; title: The Prussian Expulsions. The Colonization Commission … 482; title: The Polish League … 484; title: The Socialist Movement … 486; title: Attempts at Compromise with the German and Russian Governments … 489; title: Polish Nationalism at the Turn of the Century … 492; title: The Peasant Movement in Galicia … 493; title: The Defence of Polish Nationality in the Prussian Area … 495; title: Economic Emigration	 … 498; title: “Young Poland” and the Arts … 500; title: ◦; title: XX. THE  PERIOD OF REVOLUTION AND THE APPROACHING EUROPEAN WAR (1904-1914) … 505; title: Changes in Russian Economic Policy Towards Poland … 505; title: The 1905 Revolution in the Russian Empire and Poland … 506; title: The Reorientation of the Policy of the National Democrats … 513; title: The Expropriation Decree in Prussian Poland and the National League … 515; title: Political Changes in Galicia … 516; title: The Debate on Political Attitudes on the Eve of the World War … 518; title: ◦; title: XXI. THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE REBUILDING OF THE POLISH STATE (1914-1918) … 521; title: Piłsudski and the Legions … 521; title: The Austro-German Occupation of the Kingdom … 525; title: The Declaration of 5 November, 1916 … 526; title: The Downfall of the Tsarist Régime, 1917 … 528; title: The Regency Council	 … 530; title: The October Revolution and the Peace Treaty of Brześć Litewski (Brest Litovsk) … 531; title: Germany’s Defeat. The Declaration of the Powers on the Polish Question, 1918 … 533; title: The Liberation of the Austrian Area … 535; title: The Świeżynski Government … 536; title: The Lublin Government … 537; title: Liberated Poland … 538; title: ◦; title: POLAND 1918-1939; title: (by H. Wereszycki, translated by J. Rodzińska); title: ◦; title: XXII. THE DEMARCATION OF THE FRONTIERS AND THE ENACTMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION (1918-1921) … 543; title: The First Moments of Independence … 543; title: The Legislative Seym	 … 546; title: The Peace Treaties … 549; title: The War with Soviet Russia … 550; title: The Demarcation of the Western Frontiers … 552; title: The March Constitution, 1921 … 555; title: ◦; title: XXIII. PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT (1922-1926)	 … 558; title: The 1922 Elections … 558; title: Władysław Grabski and the Stabilization of the Currency … 560; title: The Ukrainian and Byelorussian Questions … 563; title: The Communist Movement … 564; title: Polish Foreign Policy and Locarno … 565; title: Education, Science and Culture … 567; title: ◦; title: XXIV. PROSPERITY AND THE CRISIS:  THE STRUGGLE TO LEGALIZE PIŁSUDSKI’S DICTATORSHIP (1926-1931) … 577; title: The May coup d’état … 577; title: The Social Aspect of Piłsudski’s Dictatorship … 579; title: The Struggle between the Government and the Seym … 580; title: Gdynia and Mościce … 582; title: The Centre-Left and the Brześć Affair … 584; title: The Great Economic Crisis of 1929-1931 … 586; title: ◦; title: XV. TOWARDS TOTAL DICTATORSHIP (1931-1939) … 588; title: The Foreign Policy of Piłsudski … 588; title: The Death of Piłsudski. The Conflict in the Ruling Party … 590; title: The Growth of Opposition … 595; title: The National Unity Camp … 596; title: Beck and the Cieszyn Question … 599; title: Facing German Aggression (1938-1939) … 601; title: ◦; title: CONCLUSION … 605; title: (by S. Kieniewicz, translated by K. Cękalska); title: ◦; title: Chronological tables … 611; title: Bibliographical notes … 622; title: Index … 636