Routledge Handbook of the History of Poland

Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk is a Research Fellow at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland and deputy head of the Research Department of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. His fields of research are Polish–German relations, Polish cultural diplomacy, memory politics and textbook studies.Maciej Górny is a Professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland and foreign member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research interests are East Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the history of historiography, geography and culture, discourses on race and the First World War.Katrin Steffen is a Senior Researcher and Deputy Director at the Nordost-Institut Lüneburg at the University of Hamburg and a Fellow of the Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, where she was a Professor of European and Jewish History and Culture. Her research interests are Polish–Jewish–German relations in the twentieth century, memory studies and the transnational history of science.

• I The Middle Ages and Early Modern Period 1. The Beginnings of Poland: Between the Migration Age and Mieszko I 2. Christianization 3. From Renovatio Monetae to Melioratio Terrae: Patterns of Transformation and Modernization in the High-Medieval Piast Lands 4. From a Family Enterprise to the Crown of the Realm 5. Medieval and Early Modern Towns in the Former Polish Lands 6. Poland–Lithuania and the Steppe 7. The Commonwealth: A Monarchy in All but Name 8. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a Designed, Real and Mythologized Republic 9. The Demesne Economy and Serfdom in Early Modern Poland 10. Failed Confessionalization under Foreign Dynasties 11. Freedom Without Independence: The Commonwealth of Both Nations, 1697–1815 II The Long Nineteenth Century 12. Modernization in the Polish Lands 13. Polish Liberal Thought in the Nineteenth Century: Some Intellectual Problems 14. Romanticism 15. The Inteligencja 16. Phantom Poland and European Nationalism before 1914 17. From Serf to Citizen: How Peasants Reshaped the Polish Nation 18. Benign Colonialists?: Poland’s Ambiguous Position in the World of Empires 19. Politics in a New Key 20. A Great Transformation?: Demographic Change, Industrialization and Economic Growth in the Nineteenth century 21. State and Revolution out of Empire: Poland in the Imperial and Global Perspective 22. A Battlefield for Everyone: The First World War in Polish History 23. Modern Antisemitism and the Jews 24. The “Woman Question” in the Polish Lands in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries III The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 25. Health Crises and Social Problems in the Polish Lands during the Great War and Its Aftermath 26. Statism and Economic Liberalism 27. Authoritarian Rule 28. Occupation 29. The Holocaust – A Core Element of Polish History 30. Post-War Reconstruction 31. Sovietization 32. Migrations 33. A Social History of Communist Poland: A Gender Perspective 34. The Never-ending Second World War 35. Political Opposition in Socialist Poland 36. Transformation: From Liberal Hopes to (Post)Populist Realities 37. Post-Traumatic Sovereignty: The Case of Poland 38. From Memory Politics to “Mnemonic Populism”: Poland’s Problems with the Past 39. Struggling for Recognition: Poland’s Creation of a Self-Image for Foreign Audiences in a Historical Perspective

"Like few earlier studies, this volume puts Polish developments in a Europe-wide and indeed world history context... It provides a scholarly, source- and argument-based, non-ideological discussion of Polish history... I would vehemently recommend this volume as a wake-up call to look at Poland’s history in a new and scintillating way."Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois University, USA