God's Playground A History of Poland
God's Playground A History of Poland

Author: Norman Davies

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-02-24

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 9780199253401

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This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently fallen prey to interested parties. Professor Norman Davies adopts a sceptical stance towards all existing interpretations and attempts to bring a strong dose of common sense to his theme. He presents the most comprehensive survey in English of this frequently maligned and usually misunderstood country.

God's Playground: The origins to 1795
God's Playground: The origins to 1795

Author: Norman Davies

Publisher: God's Playground: A History of

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 9780231128179

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The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present. Abandoning the traditional nationalist approach to Polish history, Norman Davies instead stresses the country's rich multinational heritage and places the development of the Jewish German, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian communities firmly within the Polish context. Davies emphasizes the cultural history of Poland through a presentation of extensive poetical, literary, and documentary texts in English translation. In each volume, chronological chapters of political narrative are interspersed with essays on religious, social, economic, constitutional, philosophical, and diplomatic themes. This new edition has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century.

God's Playground, a History of Poland: The origins to 1795
God's Playground, a History of Poland: The origins to 1795

Author: Norman Davies

Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 9780231053518

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The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present.

The Catholic Church in Polish History
The Catholic Church in Polish History

Author: Sabrina P. Ramet

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-06-22

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1137402814

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The book chronicles the evolution of the church's political power throughout Poland's unique history. Beginning in the tenth century, the study first details how Catholicism overcame early challenges in Poland, from converting the early polytheists to pushing back the Protestant Reformation half a millennium later. It continues into the dawn of the modern age—including the division of Poland between Prussia, Russia, and Austria between 1772 and 1795, the interwar years, the National Socialist occupation of World War Two, and the communist and post-war communist eras—during which The Church only half-correctly presented itself as a steadfast protector of Poles, with clergy members who either stood up to foreign authorities or collaborated with those same Nazi and Communist leaders. This study ends with a consideration of how the Church has taken advantage of the fall of communism to push its own social agenda, at times against the wishes of most Poles.