God's Playground: A History of Poland Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present

About this book

The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English Gods Playground demonstrates Polands importance in European history from medieval times to the present. Abandoning the traditional nationalist approach to Polish history Norman Davies instead stresses the countrys rich multinational heritage and places the development of the Jewish German Ukrainian and Lithuanian communities firmly within the Polish context. Davies emphasizes the cultural history of Poland through a presentation of extensive poetical literary and documentary texts in English translation. In each volume chronological chapters of political narrative are interspersed with essays on religious social economic constitutional philosophical and diplomatic themes. This new edition has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century.