Routledge Handbook of the History of Poland
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- ISBN 9781032359540
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 07 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book presents the history of Poland through the lens of selected phenomena that demonstrate pan-European and global processes. It tells the story of feudalism, parliamentarism, nationalism and modernization, and explains how these processes emerged, developed or were implemented in Poland.
The comparative method adopted here aims to study the links and transnational entanglements within the region on the basis that the optimal way of writing about a country in East Central Europe is to combine national history with a regional approach. Rather than relegating the themes of gender and diversity (cultural, ethnic, social and religious) to separate chapters, the authors aim to integrate these topics into all texts, informed by their knowledge, sources and empathy. Finally, this volume recounts both facts and the distorted paths taken by the memorialization of historic events. In doing so it seeks to answer the fundamental question: “How unique can a country’s history really be?”
The volume will be useful both for beginning students and for advanced scholars who specialize in the history of Poland and the entire region of East-Central Europe to gain new information and interpretations on topics beyond their key areas of focus.
Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk is a Research Fellow at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland and deputy head of the Research Department of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. His fields of research are Polish–German relations, Polish cultural diplomacy, memory politics and textbook studies.
Maciej Górny is a Professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland and foreign member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research interests are East Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the history of historiography, geography and culture, discourses on race and the First World War.
Katrin Steffen is a Senior Researcher and Deputy Director at the Nordost-Institut Lüneburg at the University of Hamburg and a Fellow of the Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, where she was a Professor of European and Jewish History and Culture. Her research interests are Polish–Jewish–German relations in the twentieth century, memory studies and the transnational history of science.
