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This book provides a comparative analysis of the emerging corporate control structures in the transition economies. It details characteristics of corporate governance in the two largest transition eco...
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This authoritative volume assesses how the recently democratized political system in Poland is adapting to the challenges posed by the country's adhesion to NATO which it joined in 1999. The contribut...
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In the 1930s Sula Benet, then a student at the University of Warsaw, began to study the life of Polish peasants, a subject which led to many field trips before and after World War II. Concentrating on...
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The German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 began World War II in Europe. The outcome of the campaign was a foregone conclusion. It pitted the newly modernized army of Europe's great industrial ...
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The Partitions of Poland were the major political and diplomatic upheaval of their time in Eastern Europe, and one of the most drastic redrawings of any European frontiers before 1919. And yet they ha...
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Based on extensive original research, including interviews with key participants, this book investigates the sudden and unforeseen collapse of communist power in Poland in 1989. It sets out the sequen...
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This book is a political history of democratic elections in Poland from the first fully competitive parliamentary elections in 1991 to the unexpected, most recent election in 2007. Until now, there ha...
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Explore the rich and varied delights of traditional Polish cooking in more than 60 classic step-by-step recipes. Provides a comprehensive guide to the key ingredients of the region, including wild mus...
Patrice M. Dabrowski investigates the nation-building activities of Polesduring the decades preceding World War I, when the stateless Poles wereminorities within the empires of Russia, Germany, and Au...
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In the late 18th century, Poland was one of three countries, along with the United States and France, to adopt a constitution. Although short-lived, the Polish Constitution of 3 May 1791 was acknowled...
/o-417288/n/literature-nationalism-in-partitioned-poland-1795-1918)
The selected period of Polish literature is undoubtedly focal in the development of modern nationalism in Poland, as it contains the years of struggle for survival under foreign rule. Romantic poetry ...
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Based on extensive range of Polish, British, German, Jewish and Ukranian primary and secondary sources, this work provides an objective appraisal of the inter-war period. Peter Stachura demonstrates h...
/o-421045/n/partitions-of-poland-1772-1793-1795-paperback)
The Partitions of Poland were the major political and diplomatic upheaval of their time in Eastern Europe, and one of the most drastic redrawings of any European frontiers before 1919. And yet they ha...
/o-427890/n/poland-1946-photographs-letters-of-john-vachon)
In September 1939, the German invasion of Poland propelled the world into war. By the spring of 1946, Poland was beginning to recover from five years of cataclysmic destruction. Liberated from the occ...
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This incisive collection probes the history of colonialism within Europe and posits that Eastern Europe was in fact Germany’s true “colonial” empire. Through a series of interdisciplinary essays rangi...
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Paland has erupted four times in the last twenty-five years but only the events of 1980 have had comprehensive media coverage. As a result, many questions have been raised in the mind of Western obser...
/o-424456/n/artists-of-poland-biographical-dictionary-from-14th-century)
This is a comprehensive biographical dictionary of Polish artists from the fourteenth century to the present day. Nearly 1,300 men and women who have made lasting contributions in the fields of painti...
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Most of the contributors to this excellent study attempt a careful look beyond Solidarity. Their analysis of the Polish crisis of the early 1980s makes extensive use of general sociological studies of...
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Libeskind, a master plan architect for the World Trade Center reconstruction site, introduces his approach to public space and shows how his own life experiences as the child of Holocaust survivors in...
/o-433084/n/jews-in-poland-lithuania-in-the-eighteenth-century)
Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world - an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in th...
/o-442024/n/auschwitz-poland-the-politics-of-commemoration-1945-1979)
Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz. Recognized and remembered as the most prominent site of Nazi crimes, Auschwitz has had tremendous symbolic weight in the postwa...
/o-485098/n/communism-nationalism-and-ethnicity-in-poland-1944-1950)
This book fills a significant gap in the study of the establishment of communist rule in Poland in the key period of 1944-1950. It shows that nationalism and nationality policy were fundamentally impo...
/o-485433/n/impact-of-irish-ireland-on-young-poland-1890-1918)
Moda Polska (Young Poland) emerged between 1890 and 1918. It was a unique movement in which Polish intellectuals attempted to combine native forms of expression with the ideals of European modernism t...
/o-485932/n/life-of-jews-in-poland-before-the-holocaust)
Ben-Zion Gold's memoir brings to life the world of a million Jews in pre-World War II Poland who were later destroyed by the Nazis. Warmly recalling the relationships, rituals, observances, and celebr...
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Culture Smart! sets out to provide travellers with vital information about the values and attitudes of the people they will meet, and practical advice on how to make the most of their visit abroad. Tr...
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The book addresses five areas of Polish culture in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. The section on the military, focusing on the cavalry, offers highly decorated battle regalia, weapons, an...
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One can think of countries that traversed the 20th century free from war, revolution or social upheaval. Such countries, however, are far outnumbered by those that struggled, often constantly, with se...
/o-438048/n/awakening-lives-autobiographies-of-jewish-youth-in-poland-be)
This never-before-published collection of autobiographies written by young Polish Jews in the 1930s is extraordinary. Candid and filled with poignancy, the writings reveal not only the personal strugg...
/o-485599/n/poland-culture-smart-a-quick-guide-to-customs-and-etique)
The best-selling Culture Smart! series continues where other guides leave off. Whether you are travelling on business or pleasure, long-term or short, Culture Smart! is your pocket-sized cultural road...
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This is a new exploration of how the events of the twentieth century still cast a shadow over relations between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. Using social constructivism theory, it provides ...
