| Description |
1 online resource: illustrations |
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Russian and East European studies |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Introduction : diverse histories and contested memories / Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis -- How Jewish is the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth? / Magda Teter -- Multiconfessionalism and interconfessionality : religious "toleration" in Royal Prussia, Lithuania, and the Ruthenian lands / Karin Friedrich -- Encounters with Islam within the commonwealth's borders and beyond / Dariusz Kolodziejczyk -- Art and transcultural discourse in Ukrainian lands of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth / Olenka Z. Pevny -- Sarmatia revisited : maps and the making of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Tomasz Grusiecki -- Confessions, confessionalization, and the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Richard Butterwick -- The Ukrainian sublime : nineteenth-century Polish visions of the East / Stanley Bill -- Imagining the past and remembering the future : Oskar Halecki, Lewis Namier, and the burden of history / Robert Frost -- Whose grand duchy? Contesting the multicultural past in Lithuania and Belarus / Rustis Kamuntavicius -- Polish-Belarusian encounters and the divided legacy of the commonwealth / Simon Lewis -- Jewish heritage revival in the Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian borderlands and the myth of multiculturalism / Magdalena Waligórska, Ina Sorkina, and Alexander Friedman -- A new multiculturalism in Poland : memory of the past and migration from Ukraine / Ewa Nowicka |
| Summary |
"The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795) was once the largest country in Europe-a multicultural republic that was home to Belarusians, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Poles, Ruthenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, and other ethnic and religious groups. Although long since dissolved, the Commonwealth remains a rich resource for mythmaking in its descendent modern-day states, but also a source of contention between those with different understandings of its history. Multicultural Commonwealth brings together the expertise of world-renowned scholars in a range of disciplines to present perspectives on both the Commonwealth's historical diversity and the memory of this diversity. With cutting-edge research on the intermeshed histories and memories of different ethnic and religious groups of the Commonwealth, this volume asks how various contemporary conceptions of multiculturalism can be applied to the region through a critical lens that also seeks to understand the past on its own terms"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY / General
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Ethnic relations.
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| SUBJECT |
Poland -- Ethnic relations
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Poland -- History -- To 1795.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104017
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| Subject |
Poland.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lewis, Simon, 1983- editor.
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Bill, Stanley, editor
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Project Muse. distributor.
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| LC no. |
2023020752 |
| ISBN |
9780822990192 |
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0822990199 |
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