Backwardness and Modernization: Poland and Eastern Europe in the 16th20th Centuries - Hardcover

Kochanowicz, Jacek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815387709 ISBN 13: 9780815387701

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

The subject of this book is the economic backwardness of Poland and Eastern Europe in the modern era. The studies in the first part analyse various aspects of the region's economic and social history in the period from the 16th to the 20th centuries, such as the nature of peasant economics, the character of economic evolution, and the ambiguity of social and economic relations between Poland and "the West". The second part deals with the change following the fall of state socialism. Papers in this part argue that, for understanding the present, it is necessary to take into consideration historical legacies. It is also important to look at the process of this recent change comparatively, both within Eastern Europe and comparing this region with other parts of the world. Professor Kochanowicz's contention in these essays is that the so-called transformation has had to cope not only with the effects of state socialism, but also with a much longer legacy of backwardness.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0815387709
• ISBN 13: 9780815387701
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 335