Gerald Stone FBA is an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of The Smallest Slavonic Nation: The Sorbs of Lusatia and numerous other books and articles on aspects of the language and culture of the Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs, including an Upper Sorbian-English Dictionary.

• List of IllustrationsList of MapsIntroduction1. Subjugation, 800-1200 2. Co-existence and Erosion, 1200-15003. Reformation, 1500-16004. Confessions, 1600-17005. From Pietism to Enlightenment, 1700-18006. Awakening, 1800-19007. Self-Determination, 1900-19458. From Liberation (1945) to European Union (1990)ReferencesIndex

[A] towering achievement in this neglected field ... [Stone's] work patiently and in a detailed manner leads the reader through the history, states, languages and cultures of the Slavic ethnic groups inhabiting present-day northern and eastern Germany and northeastern Poland.

Gerald Stone FBA is an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of The Smallest Slavonic Nation: The Sorbs of Lusatia and numerous other books and articles on aspects of the language and culture of the Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs, including an Upper Sorbian-English Dictionary.

• List of IllustrationsList of MapsIntroduction1. Subjugation, 800-1200 2. Co-existence and Erosion, 1200-15003. Reformation, 1500-16004. Confessions, 1600-17005. From Pietism to Enlightenment, 1700-18006. Awakening, 1800-19007. Self-Determination, 1900-19458. From Liberation (1945) to European Union (1990)ReferencesIndex

[A] towering achievement in this neglected field ... [Stone's] work patiently and in a detailed manner leads the reader through the history, states, languages and cultures of the Slavic ethnic groups inhabiting present-day northern and eastern Germany and northeastern Poland.

Gerald Stone FBA is an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of The Smallest Slavonic Nation: The Sorbs of Lusatia and numerous other books and articles on aspects of the language and culture of the Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs, including an Upper Sorbian-English Dictionary.

• List of IllustrationsList of MapsIntroduction1. Subjugation, 800-1200 2. Co-existence and Erosion, 1200-15003. Reformation, 1500-16004. Confessions, 1600-17005. From Pietism to Enlightenment, 1700-18006. Awakening, 1800-19007. Self-Determination, 1900-19458. From Liberation (1945) to European Union (1990)ReferencesIndex

[A] towering achievement in this neglected field ... [Stone's] work patiently and in a detailed manner leads the reader through the history, states, languages and cultures of the Slavic ethnic groups inhabiting present-day northern and eastern Germany and northeastern Poland.