The Polish Captivity - Softcover

Henry Sutherland Edwards

Softcover

ISBN 10: 046155870X ISBN 13: 9780461558708

Publisher: HardPress, 2016

Synopsis

The Polish Captivity: An Account Of The Present Position Of The Poles In The Kingdom Of Poland, And In The Polish Provinces Of Austria, Prussia, And Russia by Henry Sutherland Edwards provides a comprehensive survey of Polish national life after the partitions. Edwards analyzes how Poles live under three regimes—Austrian Galicia, Prussian Posen, and Russian Poland—and how each power shapes language, education, press, and political life. He describes Galician liberty under Austrian rule, the Galician Diet, the massacres of 1846, the emancipation of the serfs in Galicia, and the peasant proprietors who balance loyalty to empire with Polish self-government; he discusses the press (notably the Czas and Dyennik Poznanski), the role of the Orthodox and Uniate churches, and the complex Ruthenian question. The book also traces Cracow’s status as a free city, the fate of the University, and the symbolic centers in Warsaw and Cracow as focal points of Polish national memory. It surveys Prussia’s treatment of Posen and the politics of “national institutions,” and the broader question of whether Poland can ever be reconstituted. Edwards argues that unity of sentiment among Poles endures despite partition, and warns of the risks of imperial policy toward nationality.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 046155870X
• ISBN 13: 9780461558708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 426