Cracow : an illustrated history / Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Żygulski, Zdzisław

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kraków (Poland)--History.

Kraków (Poland).

Physical Description:

viii, 157 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Hippocrene Books, 2001.

Contents:

1 Legends and Histories 1

Primeval History of the Slavs and Mysterious Mounds 1

Legends Instead of Historical Sources 2

The Oldest Historical Tidings of Cracow 7

King Boleslaw the Brave 10

King Boleslaw the Bold and Bishop Stanislaw 13

Capital of the State Divided into Principalities 14

Tartar Invasion and the Location of a New City 18

2 The Time of Glory 25

The Polish State United

Wladyslaw the Short Crowned in Cracow 25

King Kazimierz the Great 29

Capital of Poland and Lithuania 34

The Golden Age of Gothic Cracow 38

The Renaissance in Cracow 41

Tapestries of Wawel 47

The First Elective Kings 49

The Vasa Dynasty 53

3 The Time of Decline 61

Cracow Captured by the Swedes 61

Last Polish Kings and the Partitions of the Country 66

4 The Struggle for Liberty and the Rebirth 73

Tadeusz Kosciuszko Declares the Insurrection of 24 March 1794 73

The Napoleonic Wars and Cracow as a Free City 78

Successive Uprisings 81

Galician Autonomy 82

Spiritual Capital of the Nation 86

Young Poland 93

Jozef Pilsudski and World War I 103

The Inter-War Period 107

World War II 118

Communist Domination 133

The Patriotic City 137

Cracow in the Years 1989-2000 143.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0781808375

OCLC:

46792918