God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 1: The Origins to 1795 - Softcover

Davies, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231128177 ISBN 13: 9780231128179

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2005

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

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.

About the Author:

Norman Davies is chair of the history department, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, at the University of London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0231128177
• ISBN 13: 9780231128179
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 638