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8v. pp 294. Large format paperback. Fine copy. First Edition. Wraps.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 295. Printed paperback. ISBN: 9788375253955 Includes Andrzek Brzezinski Trygve Halda Lie. Very good indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Scarce hardcover, 691pp+62 pages of glossy plates, pictorial endpapers, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. A faint stray pen mark on a contents page. Minor shelfwear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This is a monumental comprehensive survey of Polish diplomacy spanning a millennium. Published under the auspices of Sejm (the Polish Parliament) and edited by leading historians, this collective work chronologically traces the foreign policy of the Polish state through its various incarnations: from the Piast and Jagiellonian dynasties, through the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, partitions, interwar Second Republic, World War II, communist era, and the post-1989 transition. It serves as the definitive, standard reference work on the subject, detailing treaties, alliances, conflicts, and Poland's evolving relationship with its European neighbours and major world powers. - Contents: Rule of the Piast Dynasty [Creation of a System of National States in Central Europe & Their Development During the Early Middle Ages 6th-10th Century; Transitional Breakdowns & Revival of the Monarchy 1025-1138; Between the Division & Unification 1138-1295; From the Regional to the National Polish Kingdom 1295-1370]; Angevin & Jagiellonian Era 1370-1572 [Personal Union between Poland & Hungary under Louis of Hungary 1370-1382; Jadwiga & Wladyslaw Jagiello 1382-1434; Reign of Wladyslaw the Jagiellon 1434-1444 & Personal Union with the Kingdom of Hungary; Kazimierz the Jagiellon 1447-1492; Younger Jagiellons: Jan Olbracht & Aleksander 1492-1506; Last Jagiellons 1506-1572]; Elective Kings 1572-1699 [Commonwealth on the International Arena: Diplomatic Activity 1512-1648; Wars of the 17th Century; Diplomatic Service Organisation 1572-1699]; Personal Union with Saxony [International Environment & Poland's External Policy; Structure of the Polish & Saxon Diplomatic Service]; 1763-1794 [Last Interregnum 1763-1764; Enthronement of Stanislas Augustus to the First Partition 1764-1772; Partition to the Eastern War 1772-1786; Outbreak of the Eastern War to the Third Partition 1787-1795]; 1795-1831 [Polish Legions under General Jan Henryk Dabrowski; Napoleon's First Polish War & Establishment of the Duchy of Warsaw; Second Polish War & Duchy of Warsaw Occupation; Congress of Vienna 1814-1815; Joint or Separate Foreign Policy of the Kingdom of Poland & Russia 1815-1830; November Uprising 1830-1831]; Polish Diplomatic Activity in-between the Uprisings 1831-1860 [Emigre Diplomatic Service & Periods in Its History; Attempts to Continue Prince Czartoryski's Diplomatic Activity & Polish Military Units; Diplomatic Endeavours of Hotel Lambert: Rome, the Ottoman Empire, Republic of Cracow Case; Hotel Lambert & Democrats in Exile and at Home 1818-1849; Crimean War]; 1860-1914 [For the Polish Cause 1860-1862; Durez!; Diplomatic Intervention; June Notes ('Six Points'); Diplomatic Intervention Disaster; Traugutt's Foreign Policy; Between Paris & Vienna 1865-1870; League of Three Emperors 1873; Towards a World War]; Genesis of Independence Diplomacy of the Second Republic of Poland [Internationalisation of the Polish Question in WWI; First Agencies Abroad 1914-1916; Development of the Polish Cause in the Final Wartime Period; Development of Foreign Service Frameworks 1917-1918; Contribution of Diplomacy to Development of the Reborn State; Foundations of Foreign Service; Test of War; Alliances with France and Romania & Final Borders; Regular Work in Peacetime; International Conferences; Foreign Policy after May 1926; Improvement of Forms & Methods of Work; New Direction; Second Half of the 1930s; Last Pre-War Period]; Polish Diplomacy in WWII [September 1939; On the French Soil; Together with the United Kingdom; Under the Shadow of the Polish-Soviet Relations June 1941-July 1943; Facing the Dictate of Great Powers; Yalta]; Calendar of Important Political-Diplomatic Events 1944-2004; Bibliography; Index of Names.