Download or read book Wartime Relations written by Maren Röger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, all contact between German soldiers and Polish women – considered an ‘inferior race’ – was officially banned. Sexual encounters frequently took place, however. Some were consensual, while others were characterised by brutal violence, and women often sold their bodies as a means of survival. The army and SS constructed purpose-built brothels for their soldiers, but also banned and frequently punished loving relationships. In Wartime Relations, Historian Maren Röger gives a powerful account of these encounters and describes the actions of the army and the SS in regulating relations between soldiers and civilian women. Röger provides new and important insights into everyday life during the occupation, Nazi racial policy, and the fates of the women involved.

Download or read book Civil War in Central Europe 1918 1921 written by Jochen Böhler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War did not end in Central Europe in November 1918. The armistices marked the creation of the Second Polish Republic and the first shot of the Central European Civil War which raged from 1918 to 1921. The fallen German, Russian, and Austrian Empires left in their wake lands with peoples of mixed nationalities and ethnicities. These lands soon became battle grounds and the ethno-political violence that ensued forced those living within them to decide on their national identity. Civil War in Central Europe seeks to challenge previous notions that such conflicts which occurred between the First and Second World Wars were isolated incidents and argues that they should be considered as part of a European war; a war which transformed Poland into a nation.

Download or read book The Natural History and Climate Change written by Bogdan Jacek Góralski and published by Bogdan Góralski. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My research and work on a book entitled Natural history and climate change lasted over twenty years. I used in it all the academic knowledge acquired during geological studies and twenty years of complex reflections on the causes and effects of climate change and the experience of a life rich in events. You will forgive me for repeating myself in the text, but it has arisen from many separate articles written during these independent studies. I combined them into one whole by conveying my knowledge and showing that science allows us today to look into the most complicated problems of our existence. The knowledge accumulated and available in the Libraries; the Internet enables independent study in which only research passion, luck, and some free time are needed. Fortunately, fate gave me generously these gifts. If my book arouses interest and becomes a publishing success, scientific research will be an excellent incentive for well-educated average bread eaters. My book signals research issues mainly from three scientific disciplines: philosophy, history, and climatology, but also affects sociological, geological and geophysical, oceanology, agricultural, economic, demographic, political, and many other issues. In this work, I used the research of many Polish scholars and the result of other nations. I tried to show respect for the authors, quoting numerous quotes, because, without their tedious research work, I would not prove my thesis. The proper arrangement of the passages indicates the direction of my thinking about the problems being developed. The enormous extent of the subject matter has forced me to think of shortcuts not to bore readers with extensive arguments. I try to show the problems facing science, and I hope that I will arouse the interest of researchers in the amount of work to do that awaits them. When culture and science are approaching, I do not present a different perspective by believing in the self-preservation instinct of the world’s elites, who may “take a look” at my work. It remains to me that the average Kowalski-Smith will get through the sea of ​​facts quoted in my book. I hope that they will bring the desired impression and bring us rescue. The rescue will be organized activities of the world community of scholars who know that ordinary people will not cope with the imminent climatic cataclysm without them. Jakuszowice, 16 July 2021. Bogdan Góralski

Download or read book Framing the Polish Family in the Past written by Piotr Guzowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shows how families in different contexts – noble, urban, legal, religious - and across different periods of history from the late Middle Ages to the modern era, shaped the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its successor states, pre-partitioned and post-partitioned Poland. Contributors draw on a diverse range of different sources including rural and urban court registers, church registers, and population surveys to examine the economic bases of families as well as marital and family conflicts. The sources and the applied research methods enable contributors to characterize families led not only by men but also by single women. New research methods employed include approaches to family structures drawn from sociology, such as life-cycle and life-course analysis, as well as anthropological methods to reconstruct kinship in communities. Spanning several centuries, and from the river Oder to the Black Sea, the Baltic, Lithuania, Belarus and the Ukrainian borderlands, this volume is a major contribution to the historiography on East Central Europe, a region still too often omitted from histories of Europe. Framing the Polish Family in the Past will appeal to researchers and students alike in Polish and Lithuanian History and Medieval and Early Modern Society and Culture.

Download or read book Polish German Relations and the Effects of the Second World War written by Witold M. Góralski (ed.) and published by PISM. This book was released on 2006 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Long Shadow of World War II written by Matthias Strohn and published by Casemate Academic. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 marks 75 years since the end of World War II, yet even as the war slips from living memory, its legacies continue to influence current political and military thinking. This anthology will analyze these legacies for a number of countries and regions including China, Russia, the United States, the Near East, and Germany illustrating in detail how World War II is not merely a historical event, but a defining moment for current military and political thinking around the globe. This book will therefore be of interest for those interested in history, but also political and military decision makers, and followers of current political and military affairs.

Download or read book Poland From Partitions to EU Accession written by Piotr Koryś and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys Poland’s move from being a post-feudal, backward, peripheral country to being a modern, capitalist, European state: from the partition of the commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania to the abolishment of ‘second serfdom’; late industrialization to state socialism; post-partition fragmentation to post-Second World War westward dislocation; and from the ‘Solidarność’ movement to accession into the European Union. Could Poland really be considered an ‘underdeveloped’ nation throughout the last 200 years? What factors contributed to its ‘backwardness’? Has Poland yet managed to catch up with the West? This book, the first overview of the modern economic history of Poland to be published in English, addresses these and many other questions crucial for developing our understanding of the economic history of modern Central-Eastern Europe. The economic development of Poland is analyzed through data and statistics, as well as through analysis of the ideas that paved the way for the politics of economic and social modernization.

Download or read book Acta Poloniae Historica written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The 1914 2024 War Atlas written by Marcin Wojciech Solarz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1914–2024 War Atlas deconstructs the contemporary widespread and well-known image of the 20th and 21st centuries, arguing for the continuity of the historical process covering the period 1914–2024. The years between 1914 and 2024 constitute a period of unparalleled economic growth, scientific advancement, political development, and social change – in just over 100 years, human civilization has moved from an industrial to a digital age. However, they also cover some of the most dangerous, violent, and politically volatile years in human history. In these years, two world wars have been fought; weapons of mass destruction dropped; authoritarian and democratic regimes alike have risen and fallen; and regional conflicts have been almost continuous, effectively conjoining World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the Russo-Ukrainian war. This volume indicates that the 1914 July Crisis set in motion a sequence of events that spanned over 100 years. Containing a range of colourful maps and charts, this book graphically illustrates the arguments presented in both an informative and visual way. This atlas will serve as a perfect textbook for students studying history, geography, politics, and international relations, as well as being a useful guide to contemporary world politics for researchers and for those interested in international relations and modern history.

Download or read book THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE EARTH S CLIMATE CHANGES written by Bogdan Jacek Góralski and published by Bogdan Jacek Góralski. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I dedicate my book to people who are hungry for knowledge, who will build the future world and achieve the goal of evolution

Download or read book The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Polish Social Policy written by Julian Auleytner and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century written by Włodzimierz Borodziej and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges of Modernity offers a broad account of the social and economic history of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century and asks critical questions about the structure and experience of modernity in different contexts and periods. This volume focuses on central questions such as: How did the various aspects of modernity manifest themselves in the region, and what were their limits? How was the multifaceted transition from a mainly agrarian to an industrial and post-industrial society experienced and perceived by historical subjects? Did Central and Eastern Europe in fact approximate its dream of modernity in the twentieth century despite all the reversals, detours and third-way visions? Structured chronologically and taking a comparative approach, a range of international contributors combine a focus on the overarching problems of the region with a discussion of individual countries and societies, offering the reader a comprehensive, nuanced survey of the social and economic history of this complex region in the recent past. The first in a four-volume set on Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, it is the go-to resource for those interested in the ‘challenges of modernity‘ faced by this dynamic region.

Download or read book Warfare in Eastern Europe 1500 1800 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines continuities and new developments in the conduct of warfare in early modern Eastern Europe from the early sixteenth century, when Ottoman imperial expansion reached the Danube and Crimea, to the late eighteenth century, when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned out of existence and Russia rolled back Ottoman power from Ukraine and Moldavia. Contributors include specialists in Russian, Polish, Ottoman, Habsburg, Cossack, and Crimean Tatar history. The essays engage military history understood in the broadest sense and treat such subjects as taxation, recruitment, the sociology and culture of officer corps, logistics, command-and-control, and ideology as well as technology and tactics. The volume aims at facilitating comparative study of Eastern European military development across Eastern Europe and its points of divergence from military practice in the West. Contributors are Virginia H. Aksan, Brian J. Boeck, Peter B. Brown, Brian Davies, Dariusz Kupisz, Erik Lund, Janet Martin, Oleg Nozdrin, Victor Ostapchuk, Geza Palffy and Carol Belkin Stevens.

Download or read book Regional Scientists Tribute to Professor Ryszard Doma ski written by Ryszard Domański and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Studia socjologiczne written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The history of Branicki Palace until 1809 The influence of Versailles of Podlasie on the development of Bia ystok written by Karol Łopatecki and published by Instytut Badań nad Dziedzictwem Kulturowym Europy. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: