Bücher der Reihe Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics

The book aims to reconstruct and analyze the disputes over the Polish-Jewish past and memory in public debates in Poland between 1985 and 2012. The analysis includes the course and dynamics of the debates and, most importantly, the panorama of opinions revealed in the process.

The book focuses on the Polish social policy in the period 1918-1939, its contextual (historical, organisational, conceptual, financial) conditionings, the institutions, and primarily on the practical activities. The subject matter scope of the research covers labour and employment issues, social insurance, social welfare and health care system.

The book discusses how the most severe abuses of political power, traditionally termed from the ancient times as 'tyranny', were presented in 16th century political philosophy, propaganda, and literature in Italy, France, England, Scotland, German countries, and Poland-Lithuania.

The first comprehensive, non-biased history of psychohistory, a vanguard branch of historical scholarship that studies psychological dimension of the past using principles of psychoanalysis and psychology.

This book is a comprehensive work on the covert operations of the Spanish secret services throughout the 18th century. It is the fruit of a thorough study of what is known today as the intelligence cycle. The Spain of the 18th century, despite its decline on the European scene, continued to be a geopolitical actor on a global scale.

The book discusses the Polish-Ukrainian conflict over Lviv. Both nations desired to strengthen their standing in a war-ravaged Europe. Fighting broke out in what had previously been a shared city, ending with a Polish victory. The book also describes the ethnic cleansing of Jews and the memories that still haunt Polish-Ukrainian relations.

Central Europe, 1914-1918. A broad vista of the lives of the inhabitants of the border zones between Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary during the Great War. The ordinary man's struggle to survive against the background of political and military affairs during the First World War, and in the comparative European context.

A monograph on the social history of meat in Poland under the Communist regime (1945-1989). The analysis includes, among other things, problems of meat demand and supply in post-war Poland, abuses in meat production and distribution, and the role of meat in the everyday life of Polish families.

The book is a compendium of the latest research findings in Eurasian space and central Europe at the turn of early Metal ages which fundamentally change the view on the prehistory of European community. Migrations played a key role in intercultural processes and resulted in arise of the Bronze Age civilization and the first Golden Age in Europe.

This book explores the fear management in Stalinist Poland. The main concept is interpreted as a top-down manipulation with media information referring to propaganda figures of 'German threat', 'American capitalist' or 'war provoker'. Using the methodology of history of emotions, the author examines social reception of the fear management policy.

This book shows how vernacular communities commemorate their traumatic experiences of World War II. It draws on four case studies: Kalkow-Godow, Michniow, Jedwabne and Markowa, to argue that it is still possible in the Polish countryside to discover milieux de memoire. The state also uses local histories to bolster its moral capital.

This book is a comparative case study of collective memory in two small communities in Poland and Ukraine, depopulated as result of ethnic cleansing and deportation. Based on more than 150 personal interviews, it describes a common fate of many post-war European localities, destroyed and rebuilt in a completely new shape.

Focusing mainly on Poland and England in the 19th and early 20th centuries, this book looks at the critics of modernity, those who saw doom in the innovations and discoveries of their time and a degenerating civilization. This trend of gloomy forecasts and distaste for modern civilization has left its mark on the European culture of our times.

This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the "invisible hand of the market" as a panacea for underdevelopment.

A comparative study of the anti-Semitic excesses carried out by the local populations of Warsaw, Paris, The Hague, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Kaunas in the early months of German occupation. The work looks into the incidents, the perpetrators, the German authorities, and the role these incidents played in the early stage of the "final solution".

This collection of articles summarises results of investigations into archival materials concerning wartime stories of various nations involved in the Great War. The objective of the authors was to analyse the wartime experience of individuals and local communities as well as whole nations.

Brings together eighteen English language essays on the fringes, overlap, and tensions of memory and history that the author has published over the decades. This book displays some examples of his approaches to German 'Erfahrungsgeschichte' West and East, and to their roots in and beyond the Nazi period.

In aftermath of World War II, two migration streams entered Belgium: former allied soldiers from Poland and former Ostarbeiterinnen from Soviet Union. This book focuses on these people's attempts to give meaning to their war experiences in post-war life, and delineates processes they used to understand and articulate what they had been through.

The book examines ways in which Germans struggle with the Nazi past. It is a reflection upon the reasons why German reckoning with the past became a process of contradictions and shows the specific character of German collective memory in relation to the helplessness and moral condition of a nation defending itself in the face of unimaginable evil.

Based on extensive archival research and the newest jurisprudence in international law, this book inquires which of the events in Germany's colonies fulfil the criteria of genocide under current international law and whether there was a link between these events and the policies of the Third Reich in Central and Eastern Europe during World War II.

This publication is a collection of articles which summarise results of investigations into archival materials concerning wartime stories of various nations involved in the Great War. The objective of the authors was to analyse the wartime experience of individuals and local communities as well as whole nations.

The book deals with the history of the planned use of Polish railway infrastructure during the Cold War as part of the strategic plans of the Warsaw Pact. The author analyses both technical and operational issues related to railway military transportation in a historical perspective.

The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries was the result of a cumulative impact of such factors as the weakness of cities, political dominance.

Der Band prasentiert die Ergebnisse der ersten gemeinsamen Tagung von polnischen und deutschen Wissenschaftlern, die den Bestanden der ehemaligen Preussischen Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, die in der Jagiellonen-Bibliothek aufbewahrt werden, gewidmet wurde.

This book describes the tragedy of a border society that had no place inside the boundaries of a nation-state after 1945. The story takes place in Gdansk-Pomerania, which was a difficult homeland. The book presents the fate of Pomeranians and the residents of Gdansk who had to prove their national usefulness before they joined the post-war life.

The book reflects on the functioning of the public space in the nineteenth-century city on the example of Warsaw. Delving into the everyday realities and the symptoms of modern political life in the streets and squares, the author describes the conditions of a properly functioning public space, including the impact of the political regime.

What were the main forces that shaped religious liberty in the U.S. public education from the 1980s onwards? Did the historic legal framework of religious liberty contribute to the advancement of students' religious rights? The author of the book discusses these issues from a broad and complex perspective considering a wide spectrum of viewpoints.

This book is devoted to the issue of nationalism in the latest Polish history as well as to legitimation of power and creation of social trust with the use of propaganda. It focuses on the contemporary history of Eastern Europe.