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Polish and Irish Struggles for Self-Determination
This book discusses little-known linkages between two seemingly distant peoples, the Polish and the Irish, whose historical experiences share important similarities. Both Ireland and Poland have been subject to foreign rule, which they overturned in 1916 and 1918 respectively. Their predominantly Catholic societies were among the first to grant voting rights to women a century ago. This volume uses the centenary of both Ireland and Poland (re)gaining national independence and the political empowerment of women in these countries as a point of departure to analyse selected aspects of Polish and Irish people’s struggle for autonomy. Cases of mutual assistance, including the awareness-raising campaigns organized by Western women in support of the independence and suffragist movements in Poland, are presented along with examples of grassroots self-organization, foreign press coverage, and military and diplomatic efforts to empower the Poles and the Irish.
Dziewczyny na skrzydłach
„O, znowu baba! I co? Też będziesz płakać?”, „Jak na babsko, to ujdzie” – słyszały od swoich instruktorów. Nie pozwoliły jednak, by mężczyźni zniszczyli ich marzenia. W latach 20. Karolina jako pierwsza Polka samodzielnie siada za sterami Basia, Anna i Jadwiga pilotują najszybsze myśliwce czasów II wojny światowej Kasia, dziewczyna z małej wioski, ujarzmia srebrnego smoka – wojskowego MiG-a Nie tylko chłopcy marzą o lataniu. Poznając historię awiacji okazuje się, że kobiety zdobywały niebo na równi z mężczyznami. Sterowały pierwszymi powietrznymi statkami i konstruowały własne skrzydła z drewna. Jednak zawsze było im nieco trudniej, bo oprócz grawitacji musiały pokonać ludzką niechęć. Przyszedł czas, by przypomnieć o odważnych, niezależnych, pełnych pasji lotniczkach – pionierkach i tych nam współczesnych. W czasach, gdy większość kobiet nie mogła nosić spodni, one założyły lotniczy kombinezon i zdobyły niebo. Dziś, gdy mundurem lotnika szczycą się głównie mężczyźni, one wbrew stereotypom również po niego sięgają. Oto losy dziewczyn, którym wyrosły skrzydła. Powyższy opis pochodzi od wydawcy.
Intermarium
History and collective memories influence a nation, its culture, and institutions; hence, its domestic politics and foreign policy. That is the case in the Intermarium, the land between the Baltic and Black Seas in Eastern Europe. The area is the last unabashed rampart of Western Civilization in the East, and a point of convergence of disparate cultures. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz focuses on the Intermarium for several reasons. Most importantly because, as the inheritor of the freedom and rights stemming from the legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian/Ruthenian Commonwealth, it is culturally and ideologically compatible with American national interests. It is also a gateway to both East and West. Since...
Cursed
In Cursed, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir investigates the July 4, 1946, Kielce pogrom, a milestone in the periodization of the Jewish diaspora. This massacre compelled thousands of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust to flee postwar Poland. It remains a negative reference point in the Polish historical narrative and represents a lack of reckoning with the role of antisemitism in postwar Polish society and identity politics. Tokarska-Bakir weaves together the voices of the Kielce pogrom survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators with a myriad of other archival sources. Her meticulous research exposes wartime and postwar biographies of local factory workers, city and church officials, local police offi...
Polish Theatre Revisited
Polish Theatre Revisited explores nineteenth-century Polish theatre through the lens of theatre audiences. Agata Luksza places special emphasis on the most engaged spectators, known as "theatremaniacs"--from what they wore, to what they bought, to what they ate. The theatre was one of the key areas where early fan cultures emerged, and theatremaniacs indulged in diverse fan practices in opposition to the forces reforming the theatre and its spectatorship.
Law and Christianity in Poland
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the Polish history of law and Christianity written in English for a global audience. It examines the lives of twenty-one central figures in Polish law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law in their country and the region. The individuals selected for study exhibit wide-ranging areas of expertise, from private law and codification, through national public law and constitutional law, to international developments that left their mark on Poland and the world. The chapters discuss the jurists within their historical, intellectual, and political context. The editors selected jurists after extensive consultation with legal historians looking at the jurists’ particular merits, contributions to law in general, religious perspective, and period under consideration. The collection will appeal to scholars, lawyers, and students interested in the interplay between law and religion. Political, social, legal, and religious historians, among other readers, will find, for the first time in English, authoritative treatments of essential Polish legal thinkers and authors.
Security Empire
A compelling examination of the establishment of the secret police in Communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern Germany This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differing interpretations of communism and local histories. She also illuminates the difference between veteran agents who fought in foreign wars and younger, more radical agents who combatted "enemies of communism" in the Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe.
Kaci Hitlera. Brudny sekret Europy
"sumieniem Europy Szaleńcze nazistowskie przedsięwzięcie - zamordować miliony ludzi, zlikwidować całe narody. Ludobójstwo przez Niemców zaplanowane i przez Niemców wcielane w życie. To tylko część prawdy - wygodna, ale celowo zafałszowana wizja II wojny światowej. Ukraińcy, Litwini, Łotysze, Chorwaci, Holendrzy, Bośniacy, Duńczycy, Rumuni... To oni wzięli udział w orgii mordów na skrwawionych, także polskich, ziemiach. Milion ochotników z całej Europy zgłosiło swój akces do szaleńczego eksterminacyjnego projektu pod sztandarami Waffen SS. Chcieli wykazać, że są godni reprezentować nową Europę - Europę nadludzi Heinricha Himmlera. Dziś w Rydze czy we Lwowie nierzadko są uważani za bohaterów narodowowyzwoleńczej sprawy. Książka Christophera Hale'a nie pozwala zapomnieć, kim naprawdę byli ci, którym dziś stawia się pomniki. "
The Mentality of Partisans of the Polish Anti-Communist Underground 1944–1956
This book is the first study of the mentality of anti-Communist underground fighters and presents, especially, their thinking, ideals, stereotypes and customs. The models and psychological processes that the volume analyses are relevant not only to the Polish partisans, but also to members of other underground organisations, in East-Central Europe, South America and Asia. It explores how the underground organizations were created, who joined them and why, what thoughts and emotions were involved, and what were the consequences of the decisions to join them. Experiences and situations are illustrated with excerpts of diaries and memoirs which reveal the thinking of people in extreme situations, when their lives are in danger, when they are caught in desperate conflicts, or are fighting against overwhelming government forces. The Mentality of Partisans is useful for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in the history of Europe, resistance movements, anticommunism, military and political conflicts, World War Two and non-classical historiography.
