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| ==Bibliography== | | ==Bibliography== |
| * Library of Congress. ''A Country Study: Poland'' (1993), highly detailed factual report by U.S. government (it is in the public domain, with no copyright) [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/pltoc.html online edition]
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| * ''Poland'' (Eyewitness Travel Guides by DK Publishing) (2007)
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| * Parkinson, Tom, Richard Watkins, and Neil Wilson. ''Lonely Planet Poland'' (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Planet-Poland-Tom-Parkinson/dp/174059522X/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188096687&sr=8-2 online excerpt and search from Amazon.com]
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| * Podgórecki, Adam. ''Polish Society'' Praeger, 1994 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=28518609 online edition]
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| * Turnock, David. ''The Human Geography of East Central Europe.'' Routledge. 2002. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=108154408 online edition]
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| ===Historical surveys and reference===
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| * Biskupski, M. B. ''The History of Poland.'' Greenwood, 2000. 264 pp. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=28002395 online edition]
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| * Bromke, Adam. ''The Meaning and Uses of Polish History.'' East European Monographs, 1987. 244 pp.
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| * ''The Cambridge History of Poland'' (two vols., 1941- 1950) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58956854 online edition vol 1 to 1696]
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| * Davies, Norman. ''Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland.'' Oxford University Press, 1984. 511 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Europe-Past-Polands-Present/dp/0192801260/ref=pd_bbs_5/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192604734&sr=8-5 excerpt and text search]
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| * Davies, Norman. ''God's Playground: A History of Poland.'' 2 vol. Columbia U. Press, 1982. 1,189 pp.; highly detailed, well-written narrative but criticized by some specialists [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0231053517/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-4827826-5463040#reader-link online excerpts and search at Amazon.com; vol 1 to 1795]
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| * Frucht, Richard. ''Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism'' Garland Pub., 2000 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=106917725 online edition]
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| * Kenney, Padraic. “After the Blank Spots Are Filled: Recent Perspectives on Modern Poland,” ''Journal of Modern History'' Volume 79, Number 1, March 2007 pp 134-61, historiography
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| * Kloczowski, Jerzy. ''A History of Polish Christianity.'' Cambridge U. Pr., 2000. 385 pp.
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| * Leslie, R. F. et al. ''The History of Poland since 1863.'' Cambridge U. Press, 1980. 494 pp.
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| * Lerski, George J. ''Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. '' Greenwood, 1996. 750 pp. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=29299640 online edition]
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| * Lewinski-Corwin, Edward Henry. ''The Political History of Poland'' (1917), well-illustrated; 650pp [http://books.google.com/books?id=9foDAAAAYAAJ&dq=intitle:poland&num=30&as_brr=1 online at books.google.com]
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| * Lukowski, Jerzy and Zawadzki, Hubert. ''A Concise History of Poland.'' Cambridge U. Press, 2nd ed 2006. 408pp. [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/052185332X/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-4827826-5463040#reader-link excerpts and search]
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| * Pogonowski, Iwo Cyprian. ''Poland: A Historical Atlas.'' Hippocrene, 1987. 321 pp.
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| * Prazmowska, Anita. ''A History of Poland.'' Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 242 pp.
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| * Roos, Hans. ''A History of Modern Poland'' (1966)
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| * Sanford, George. ''Historical Dictionary of Poland.'' Scarecrow Press, 2003. 291 pp.
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| * Wróbel, Piotr. ''Historical Dictionary of Poland, 1945-1996.'' Greenwood, 1998. 397 pp.
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| * Zamoyski, Adam. ''The Polish Way. A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and their Culture.'' J. Murray, 1987. 422 pp.; heavily illustrated [http://www.amazon.com/Polish-Way-Thousand-Year-History-Culture/dp/0781802008/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192604734&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
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| ====History: before 1900====
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| * Blanke, Richard. ''Prussian Poland in the German Empire, 1871-1900.'' Columbia U. Press, 1981. 268 pp.
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| * Bogucka, Maria. ''Women in Early Modern Polish Society: Against the European Background.'' Ashgate, 2004. 192 pp
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| * Butterwick, Richard, ed. ''The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, c. 1500-1795.'' Palgrave, 2001. 249 pp. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101708042 online edition]
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| * Frost, Robert I. ''After the Deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War 1655-1660.'' Cambridge U. Press, 1993. 211 pp.
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| * Górecki, Piotr. ''Economy, Society, and Lordship in Medieval Poland, 1100-1250'' Holmes & Meier, 1992 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=89784822 online edition]
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| * Lukowski, Jerzy. ''Liberty's Folly: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century, 1697-1795.'' Routledge, 1991. 316 pp.
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| * Morfill, William Richard. ''Poland'' (1900) [http://books.google.com/books?id=qrYTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=intitle:poland&num=30&as_brr=1#PPR5,M1 online at books.google.com]
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| * Stauter-Halsted, Keely. ''The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914.'' Cornell U. Press, 2001. 272 pp.
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| * Stone, Daniel. ''The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795.'' U. of Washington Press, 2001. 374 pp.
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| * Trzeciakowski, Lech. ''The Kulturkampf in Prussian Poland.'' Columbia U. Press, 1990. 223 pp.
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| * Urban, William. ''Tannenberg and After: Lithuania, Poland, and the Teutonic Order in Search of Immortality.'' Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, 1999. 500 pp.
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| * Walicki, Andrzej. ''The Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Nationhood: Polish Political Thought from Noble Republicanism to Tadeusz Kosciuszko.'' U. of Notre Dame Press, 1989. 152 pp.
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| * Weeks, Theodore R. ''Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier.'' Northern Illinois U. Press, 1996. 297 pp.
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| ====20th century====
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| * Chodakiewicz, Marek Jan. ''Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947.'' Lexington, 2004. 497 pp.
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| * Diskin, Hanna. ''The Seeds of Triumph: Church and State in Gomulka's Poland.'' Central European U. Press, 2001. 317 pp.
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| * Dziewanowski, M. K. ''Poland in the Twentieth Century'' Columbia University Press. [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=99696411 online edition]
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| * Garlicki, Andrzej. ''Józef Pilsudski, 1867-1935.'' 2nd abridged ed. Brookfield, Vt.: Scolar, 1995. 199 pp
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| * Garlinski, Józef. ''Poland in the Second World War.'' Hippocrene, 1985. 387 pp.
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| * Hempel, Andrew. ''Poland in World War II: An Illustrated Military History'' Hippocrene, 2005
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| * Hunter, Richard J. and Ryan, Leo V. ''From Autarchy to Market: Polish Economics and Politics, 1945-1995.'' Praeger, 1998. 287 pp.
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| * Jedrzejewicz, Waclaw. ''Pilsudski: A Life for Poland.'' Hippocrene Books, 1982. 385 pp.
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| * Kacewicz, George. ''Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-45'' (1979)
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| * Kenney, Padraic. ''Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950.'' Cornell U. Press, 1997. 360 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Rebuilding-Poland-Workers-Communists-1945-1950/dp/0801432871/ref=sr_1_3/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194210292&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search]
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| * Landau, Zbigniew and Tomaszewski, Jerzy. ''The Polish Economy in the Twentieth Century.'' St. Martin's, 1985. 346 pp.
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| * Latawski, Paul, ed. ''The Reconstruction of Poland, 1914-23.'' St. Martin's, 1992. 217 pp.
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| * Peszke, Michael Alfred. "An Introduction to English-Language Literature on the Polish Armed Forces in World War II," ''The Journal of Military History'' 70 (October 2006) pp. 1029-1064. in [[Project Muse]]
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| * Peszke, Michael Alfred and Piotr Stefan Wandycz. ''The Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War II'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Polish-Underground-Western-Failure-Strategic/dp/078642009X/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194210203&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
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| * Rossino, Alexander B. ''Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity.'' U. Press of Kansas, 2003. 360 pp.
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| * Stachura, Peter D. ''Poland in the Twentieth Century.'' Macmillan, 1999. 180 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Poland-Twentieth-Century-Peter-Stachura/dp/0312220278/ref=sr_1_2/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192604684&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
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| * Stachura, Peter D. ''Poland, 1918-1945: An Interpretive and Documentary History of the Second Republic.'' (2004) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=108250289 online edition]; [http://www.amazon.com/Poland-Twentieth-Century-Peter-Stachura/dp/0312220278/ref=sr_1_2/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194210159&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
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| * Sword, Keith, ed. ''Sikorski: Soldier and Statesman.'' Orbis, 1990. 224 pp.
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| * Terry, Sarah Meiklejohn. ''Poland's Place in Europe: General Sikorski and the Origin of the Oder-Neisse Line, 1939-43'' (1982).
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| * Watt, Richard M. ''Bitter Glory: The History of Independent Poland, 1918-1939.'' (1979). 512 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Bitter-Glory-Poland-Fate-1918-1939/dp/0781806739/ref=sr_1_3/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194210050&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search]
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| * Wiles, Timothy, ed. ''Poland between the Wars: 1918-1939.'' Indiana U. Polish Studies Center, 1989.
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| ===Recent history since 1980===
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| * Bernhard, Michael H. ''The Origins of Democratization in Poland: Workers, Intellectuals and Oppositional Politics, 1976-1980'' (1993)
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| * Connor, Walter D. and Piotr Ploszajski, eds. ''The Polish Road from Socialism: The Economics, Sociology and Politics of Transition'' (1992)
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| * Hunter, Richard J. and Ryan, Leo V. ''From Autarchy to Market: Polish Economics and Politics, 1945-1995.'' Praeger, 1998. 287 pp.
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| * Kolodko, Grzegorz W., ed. ''The Polish Miracle: Lessons for the Emerging Markets.'' Ashgate, 2005. 295 pp.
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| * Kurski, Jaroslaw. ''Lech Walesa: Democrat or Dictator?'' (1993), 178 pp.
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| * Kwitny, Jonathan. ''Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II.'' H. Holt, 1997. 754 pp.
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| * Lepak, Keith John. ''Prelude to Solidarity: Poland and the Politics of the Gierek Regime.'' Columbia U. Press, 1988. 271 pp.
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| * Millard, Frances. ''Polish Politics and Society.'' Routledge, 1999. 232 pp.
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| * Millard, Frances. "Presidents and Democratization in Poland: the Roles of Lech Walesa and Aleksander Kwasniewski in Building a New Polity." ''Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics'' 2000 16(3): 39-62. Issn: 1352-3279 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]
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| * Ost, David. ''The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe.'' Cornell U. Press, 2005. 238 pp.
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| * Sanford, George. ''Democratic Government in Poland: Constitutional Politics since 1989.'' Palgrave, 2002. 256 pp.
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| * Simon, Jeffrey. ''Poland and NATO: A Study in Civil-Military Relations.'' Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. 195 pp.
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| * Staar, ed. Richard F. ''Transition to Democracy in Poland'' (1993)
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| ===Society and Culture===
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| * Bartal, Israel. ''The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881.'' U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 203 pp.
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| * Braun, Jerzy, ed. ''Poland in Christian Civilization.'' London: Veritas, 1985. 633 pp.
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| * Braun, Kazimierz. ''A Concise History of Polish Theater from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuries.'' E. Mellen, 2003. 474 pp.
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| * Braun, Kazimierz. ''A History of Polish Theater, 1939-1989: Spheres of Captivity and Freedom.'' Greenwood, 1996. 233 pp.
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| * Carpenter, Bogdana, ed. ''Monumenta Polonica, the First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology.'' Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Pub., 1989. 567 pp.
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| * Cavanaugh, Jan. ''Out Looking In: Early Modern Polish Art, 1890-1918.'' U. of California Press, 2000. 307 pp.
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| * Corrsin, Stephen. ''Warsaw before the First World War: Poles and Jews in the Third City of the Russian Empire, 1880-1914.'' East European Monographs, 1989. 183 pp.
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| * Czerwinski, E. J., ed. ''Dictionary of Polish Literature.'' Greenwood, 1994. 488 pp.
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| * Czekanowska, Anna. ''Polish Folk Music: Slavonic Heritage, Polish Tradition, Contemporary Trends.'' Cambridge U. Press, 1990. 226 pp.
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| * Eisenbach, Artur. ''The Emancipation of the Jews in Poland, 1780-1870.'' Blackwell, 1991. 632 pp.
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| * Elie, Stanislaw. ''Literature and Nationalism in Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918.'' U. of London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies; 2000. 234 pp.
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| * Falkowska, Janina. ''Andrzej Wajda: History, Politics, and Nostalgia in Polish Cinema'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/Andrzej-Wajda-History-Politics-Nostalgia/dp/1845452259/ref=sr_1_36/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192604866&sr=8-36 excerpt and text search]
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| * Fiszman, Samuel, ed. ''The Polish Renaissance in Its European Context.'' Indiana U. Press, 1988. 478 pp.
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| * Ford, Charles and Hammond, Robert; with Kudy, Grazyna. ''Polish Film: A Twentieth Century History.'' McFarland, 2005. 354 pp.
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| * Haltof, Marek. ''Polish National Cinema.'' Berghahn Books, 2002. 304 pp.
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| * Janowski, Maciej. ''Polish Liberal Thought before 1918.'' Central European U. Press, 2004. 282 pp.
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| * Jedlicki, Jerzy. ''A Suburb of Europe: Nineteenth-Century Polish Approaches to Western Civilization.'' Central European U. Press, 1999. 307 pp
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| * Kurczaba, Alex S., ed. ''Conrad and Poland.'' East European Monographs, 1996. 258 pp.
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| * Martin, Sean. ''Jewish Life in Cracow, 1918-1939.'' London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2005. 276 pp
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| * MioszŁ, CzesŁaw ''History of Polish Literature'' (2nd ed 1983), 570pp
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| * Ostrowski, Jan K. et al. ''Land of the Winged Horsemen: Art in Poland, 1572-1764.'' Yale U. Press, 1999. 380 pp
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| * Pelinka, Anton. ''Politics of the Lesser Evil: Leadership, Democracy and Jaruzelski's Poland.'' Transaction Books, 1999. 259 pp.
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| * Segel, Harold B. Renaissance Culture in Poland: The Rise of Humanism, 1470-1543.'' Cornell U. Press, 1989. 285 pp.
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| * Sokol, Stanley S. ''The Artists of Poland: A Biographical Dictionary from the 14th Century to the Present.'' McFarland, 2000. 263 pp.
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| * Suchodolski, Bogdan. ''History of Polish Culture.'' Warsaw: Interpress, 1986. 256 pp. lavishly illustrated
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| * Thomas, Adrian. ''Polish Music since Szymanowski.'' Cambridge U. Press, 2005. 384 pp.
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| * Thomas, William Isaac, and Florian Znaniecki. ''The Polish Peasant in Europe and America; Monograph of an Immigrant Group'' 2 vol (1920) one of the great classics of American sociology; [http://books.google.com/books?id=zaUMAAAAIAAJ&printsec=toc&dq=intitle:polish+intitle:peasant&num=30&sig=VjonwABB9UZyAGbt19b8CtNBaP8 online at books.google.com]
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| * Trochimczyk, Maja, ed. ''After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music.'' Polish Music Center, 2000. 333 pp.
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| ==External Sources== | | ==External Sources== |
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