The Cambridge history of Poland
By: Ed. by W. F. Reddaway...[et al]
Contributors: Reddaway, William Fiddian, 1872-1949.
Publisher: The University Press
Published: 1950
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1237
Subjects: Poland -- History
Description: 2 v. : ill., folded maps ; 24 cm.
Notes: v. 1. From the origins to Sobieski (to 1696) (1950), 607 p. ; v. 2. From Augustus II to Pilsudski (1697-1935) (1951), 630 p.
Table of contents: title: VOLUME I.  FROM THE ORIGINS TO SOBIESKI (to 1696)  (1950), 607 p.; title: ◦; title: Note by Professor Halecki … vi; title: Preface … vii; title: Contents … ix; title: List of Illustrations … xiii; title: ◦; title: I. Racial Origins … 1; title: by the late A. P. Goudy; title: ◦; title: II. The Introduction of Christianity and the Early Kings of Poland … 16; title: by Professor S. Kętrzynski; title: ◦; title: III. The Twelfth Century: from Growth to Division, 1079-1202 … 43; title: by Professor A. Bruce Boswell; title: ◦; title: IV. The Church in Poland, from its Origin to 1250 … 60; title: by Professor Pierre David; title: ◦; title: V. Territorial Division and the Mongol Invasions, 1202-1300 … 85; title: by Professor A. Bruce Boswell; title: ◦; title: VI. The Reunion of the Kingdom, 1295-1333 … 108; title: by Professor K. Tymieniecki; title: ◦; title: VII. German Settlement in Poland and the Rise of the Teutonic Order … 125; title: by Professor M. Z. Jedlicki; title: ◦; title: VIII. Cultural and Social Conditions in the Middle Ages … 148; title: by Professor A. Bruce Boswell; title: ◦; title: IX. Casimir the Great, 1333-70 … 167; title: by Professor O. Halecki; title: ◦; title: X. From the Union with Hungary to the Union with Lithuania: Jadwiga, 1374-99 … 188; title: by Professor O. Halecki; title: ◦; title: XI. Problems of the New Monarchy: Jagello and Vitold, 1400-34 … 210; title: by Professor O. Halecki; title: ◦; title: XII. Jagiełło’s Successors: the Thirteen Years’ War with the Knights, 1434-66 … 232; title: by Professor A. Bruce Boswell; title: ◦; title: XIII. Imperial Expansion and the Supremacy of the Gentry, 1466-1506 … 250; title: by the late Professor F. Papée; title: ◦; title: XIV. (A) The Renaissance in Poland:  Cultural Life and Literature … 273; title: by Professor O. Halecki; title: ◦; title: (B) The Renaissance in Poland:  the Fine Arts … 287; title: by the late Dr S. S. Komornicki; title: ◦; title: XV. Zygmunt (Sigismund) I, 1506-48 … 300; title: by Dr W. Pociecha; title: ◦; title: XVI. The Reformation in Poland … 322; title: by Dr P. Fox; title: ◦; title: XVII. Zygmunt August and the Union of Lublin, 1548-72 … 348; title: by Professor J. Pajewski; title: ◦; title: XVIII. The Interregna and Stephen Batory, 1572-86 … 369; title: by Professor F. Nowak; title: ◦; title: XIX.The Counter-Reformation in Poland … 392; title: by Professor J. Umiński; title: ◦; title: XX. (A) Constitutional Conditions in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries … 416; title: by the late Professor J. Siemieński; title: ◦; title: (B) The Social and Economic Structure in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries … 441; title: by the late Professor J. Rutkowski; title: ◦; title: XXI. Sigismund III, 1587-1632 … 451; title: by Professor F. Nowak; title: ◦; title: XXII. (A) Poland and the Baltic in the first half of the Seventeenth Century … 475; title: by the late Professor P. O. von Törne; title: ◦; title: (B) The Reign of Władysław IV, 1632-48 … 488; title: by Professor W. Czapliński; title: ◦; title: XXIII. (A) The Reign of John Casimir: Part I, 1648-54 … 502; title: by the late Professor M. Korduba; title: ◦; title: (B) The Reign of John Casimir: Part II, 1654-68 … 518; title: by Professor W. Tomkiewicz; title: ◦; title: XXIV. Jan Sobieski, 1674-96 … 532; title: by Dr O. Forst de Battaglia; title: ◦; title: XXV. (A) Polish Cultural Life in the Seventeenth Century … 557; title: by the late Professor A. Brückner; title: ◦; title: (B) Polish Art in the Seventeenth Century … 570; title: by Professor W. Tatarkiewicz; title: ◦; title: Index … 579