Multicultural Commonwealth
Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives
By Stanley Bill, Simon Lewis · 2023
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- About this editionISBN: 9780822990192, 0822990199Page count: 378Published: November 14, 2023Format: ebookPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressLanguage: EnglishAuthor: Stanley Bill, Simon LewisEditors: Simon Lewis, Stanley BillCreate CitationTable of contents
An Innovative Study on Historical Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe
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...Source: PublisherMore about this editionShow lessGet bookBuy DigitalThis editionAny editionBorrowEdit locationCancelCheck availability at libraries near youNo matching city or zip codeOther editions2023Oct 6, 2026University of Pittsburgh PressLongleaf Services B/O University of PittsburghHardcoverPaperback383 pages378 pagesCommon terms and phrasesAndrzejBelarusBelarusianBerestovoBerestovo ChurchBiałystokBiłgorajborderlandbordersBrodyCalvinistCatholicCatholicismchapterclaimscoexistenceconfessionalconflictcontemporaryCossacksculturaldiscoursediversityDmowskidominantDuchy of Lithuaniaearly modernEastern ChristianelitesEmpireethnicEuropeEuropean SarmatiaGermanGrand DuchygroupsHaleckiheritagehistoriansMore terms and phrasesShow lessAbout the workOriginally published: 2023AuthorStanley BillAustralian translatorStanley Bill (Author) Stanley Bill is associate professor of Polish studies and director of the Slavonic Studies Section at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Czesław Miłosz’s Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity, coeditor of The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature, and translator of Miłosz’s novel The Mountains of Parnassus.Search Stanley BillSimon LewisAuthorSimon Lewis (Author) Simon Lewis is associate professor of Eastern and Central European cultural history at the University of Bremen. He is author of Belarus—Alternative Visions: Nation, Memory, and Cosmopolitanism, coauthor of Remembering Katyn, and coeditor of Regions of Memory: Transnational Formations.Search Simon LewisMore by authorBelarus - Alternative VisionsNation, Memory and CosmopolitanismBy Simon LewisBelarus is often regarded as "Europe’s last dictatorship", a sort-of fossilized leftover from the Soviet Union. However, a key factor in determining Belarus’s development, including its likely future ...Remembering KatynBy Alexander Etkind, Rory Finnin, Uilleam Blacker, Julie Fedor, Simon Lewis, and more.Katyn- the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 - has come to be remembered as Stalin's emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. ...Good ChangeThe Rise and Fall of Poland’s Illiberal RevolutionBy Stanley Bill, Ben StanleyFew countries serve as a more useful case study for understanding the global tension between liberal and illiberal conceptions of democracy than Poland. Under the populist Law and Justice (PiS) –led ...More booksPublisherUniversity of PittsburghSearch University of PittsburghMore from the publisher collectionThe Moscovia of Antonio Possevino, S.J.Translated with a Critical Introduction and Notes by Hugh F. GrahamThis translation provides a descriptive account of the court of Tsar Ivan IV, in sixteenth-century Moscow, as seen through the eyes of papal envoy and Jesuit Antonio Possevino S.J. , who was sent to ...The Moscovia of Antonio Possevino, S.J.Translated with a Critical Introduction and Notes by Hugh F. GrahamBy Antonio PossevinoThis translation provides a descriptive account of the court of Tsar Ivan IV, in sixteenth-century Moscow, as seen through the eyes of papal envoy and Jesuit Antonio Possevino S.J. , who was sent to ...Paul IA Reassessment of His Life and ReignThis book offers the first book-length English language biography of Russian emperor Paul I (1754-1801), since a 1913 translation. Most of the essays have been written expressly for this volume. They ...More books
