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Multicultural commonwealth : Poland-Lithuania and its afterlives
Title
Multicultural commonwealth : Poland-Lithuania and its afterlives / edited by Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis.
ISBN
9780822948032
0822948036
9780822990192
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2023]
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
xii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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 mythmaking in 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 06, 2024
Series
Russian and East European studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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