Multicultural commonwealth : Poland-Lithuania and its afterlives /

Multicultural commonwealth : Poland-Lithuania and its afterlives / edited by Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis.

"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...

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Other Authors: Bill, Stanley (Editor), Lewis, Simon, 1983- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2023]
Series:Series in Russian and East European studies.
Subjects:
To 1795
Ethnic relations.
Poland > History > To 1795.
Poland > Ethnic relations.
Lithuania > History > 1569-1795.
Lithuania > Ethnic relations.
Pologne > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1795.
Lituanie > Histoire > 1569-1795.
Poland.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : 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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