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In this lively overview of Poland s modern history, Brian Porter-Szücs sets the country in a broader context of Europe, using the events of Poland s past to illustrate and illuminate the global forces that have transformed the world over the last century.
Poland in the Modern World presents a history of the country from the late nineteenth century to the present, incorporating new perspectives from social and cultural history and positioning it in a broad global context
Challenges traditional accounts Poland that tend to focus on national, political history, emphasizing the country s
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Produktbeschreibung
In this lively overview of Poland s modern history, Brian Porter-Szücs sets the country in a broader context of Europe, using the events of Poland s past to illustrate and illuminate the global forces that have transformed the world over the last century.
Poland in the Modern World presents a history of the country from the late nineteenth century to the present, incorporating new perspectives from social and cultural history and positioning it in a broad global context

Challenges traditional accounts Poland that tend to focus on national, political history, emphasizing the country s exceptionalism .
Presents a lively, multi-dimensional story, balancing coverage of high politics with discussion of social, cultural and economic changes, and their effects on individuals' daily lives.
Explores both the regional diversity within Poland and the country's place within Europe and the wider world.
Provides a new interpretive framework for understanding key historical events in Poland's modern history, including the experiences of World War II and the postwar communist era.
Autorenporträt
Brian Porter-Szücs is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where he has taught since 1994. He is the author of Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism, Modernity, and Poland (2011) and When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland (2000). He is also the co-editor, with Bruce Berglund, of Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe (2010).
Rezensionen
"Well researched, engagingly written, and full of striking anecdotes, Brian Porter-Szûcs's Poland in the Modern World deserves a wide readership." (Slavic Review, 1 October 2014)