Unintended affinities : nineteenth-century German and Polish historians on the Holy Roman Empire and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Adam Kozuchowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kożuchowski, Adam, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Germany--History--19th century.

Historiography.

Historiography--Poland--History--19th century.

Lithuania--Historiography.

Lithuania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]

Language Note:

Translated from the Polish.

Summary:

Unintended Affinities' examines the ways in which German and Polish historians of the nineteenth-century regarded the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 0The book parallels how historians approached the old Reich and the Commonwealth within the framework of their national history. Ko?uchowski analyzes how German and Polish nationalistic historians, who played central roles in propagandizing a glorious past that justified a centralized modern state, struggled with how to portray the very decentralized and multi-ethnic empires that preceded their time.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Names and Translations

Introduction

Prologue. A Note on Some Fundamental Historical Concepts

Chapter One. Nature and Nation

Chapter Two. The Zenith

Chapter Three. The Decline and Fall

Chapter Four. It Is Never Too Late

Conclusion

Timeline

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822987246

0822987244