Multicultural Commonwealth : Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives / edited by Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bill, Stanley, editor.

Lewis, Simon, 1983- editor.

Series:

Russian and East European studies.

Russian and East European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic relations.

Poland--History--To 1795.

Poland.

Poland--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University of Pittsburgh Press 2023

Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2023]

Summary:

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 mythmakingin 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 the intermeshed histories and memories of different ethnic and religious groups of the Commonwealth, this volume asks how various contemporary conceptions of multiculturalism can be applied to the region through a critical lens that also seeks to understand the past on its own terms.

Contents:

Diverse histories and contested memories / Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis

How Jewish is the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth? / Magda Teter

Multiconfessionalism and interconfessionality : religious "toleration" in Royal Prussia, Lithuania, and the Ruthenian lands / Karin Friedrich

Encounters with Islam within the commonwealth's borders and beyond / Dariusz Kolodziejczyk

Art and transcultural discourse in Ukrainian lands of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth / Olenka Z. Pevny

Sarmatia revisited : maps and the making of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Tomasz Grusiecki

Confessions, confessionalization, and the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Richard Butterwick

The Ukrainian sublime : nineteenth-century Polish visions of the East / Stanley Bill

Imagining the past and remembering the future : Oskar Halecki, Lewis Namier, and the burden of history / Robert Frost

Whose grand duchy? Contesting the multicultural past in Lithuania and Belarus / Rustis Kamuntavicius

Polish-Belarusian encounters and the divided legacy of the commonwealth / Simon Lewis

Jewish heritage revival in the Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian borderlands and the myth of multiculturalism / Magdalena Waligórska, Ina Sorkina, and Alexander Friedman

A new multiculturalism in Poland : memory of the past and migration from Ukraine / Ewa Nowicka.

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ISBN:

9780822990192

0822990199