The formation of the Polish state
Subtitle: the period of ducal rule, 963-1194
By: by Tadeusz Manteuffel ; translated and with an introduction by Andrew Gorski.
Contributors: Gorski, Andrew.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780814316825
Subjects: Poland -- History -- Piast period, 960-1386.
Description: 171 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Notes: Translation, with minor changes, of:  "Polska w okresie prawa książęcego, 963-1194", published in 1976 in the author's Historyk wobec historii, p. 122-263.
Includes index.
Table of contents: class: section
title: Foreword by Paul W. Knoll … 7; class: section
title: Acknowledgments … 21; class: section
title: Introduction … 23; class: section
title: Note on the Translation … 31; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 1. The Western Slavs … 37; class: section
title: 2. Initial Contact with the West … 47; class: section
title: 3. Emancipation from the Empire … 56; class: section
title: 4. The Pursuit of a Crown … 64; class: section
title: 5. The Great Calamity … 77; class: section
title: 6. The Reconstruction of the State … 85; class: section
title: 7. Aspirations toward Greatness … 91; class: section
title: 8. Rule of the Magnates … 99; class: section
title: 9. Access to the Baltic Sea … 105; class: section
title: 10. The Unstable New Order … 119; class: section
title: 11. Poland's Retreat from Its Western Policies … 129; class: section
title: 12. The Abolition of Krzywousty's Testament … 136; class: section
title: 13. The Political and Social Structure of Ducal Poland … 144; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: APPENDIXES:; class: section
title: ― A. Glossary of Place Names … 155; class: section
title: ― B. Slavic and Baltic Tribal Names … 158; class: section
title: ― C. Royal Genealogies … 159; class: section
title: ― D. Polish Historians … 162; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Index … 165; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: MAPS:; class: section
title: ― 1. Limes Sorabicus … 39; class: section
title: ― 2. The State of Great Moravia … 41; class: section
title: ― 3. Principal West Slavic Tribes … 45; class: section
title: ― 4. Poland in the Reign of Bolesław Chrobry … 59; class: section
title: ― 5. The Seniorate System … 117