Germans, Poles, and Jews. The Nationality Conflict in the Prussian East, 1772-1914
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. ix, 406pp. Original orange cloth with white lettering on cover and spine.
"Poland in the eighteenth century was an exotic, aristocratic empire. War and diplomacy since the fourteenth century had carried the frontiers of the state of the state far beyond the medieval Polish heartland. Danzig and the Baltic coast, Wilno and Lithuania, Belorussia to the outskirts of Smolensk, the Ukraine to the gates of Kiev and south to Turkish Moldavia: these conquests of their forefathers the eighteenth-century nobility regarded with proud but ill-founded complacency... This book is a history of nationality conflict in the lands seized by Prussia in the Polish partitions. It is a study of the Prussian government's labors first to Prussianize and later to Germanize its Polish subjects, particularly in the province of Poznán, the heartland of Prussian Poland. It focuses sharply on the Polish resistance to Prussian rule..." (Introduction) Illustrated with several maps and reproductions of b/w photographs. With extensive section of notes, sources and bibliography and index at rear. Spine sunned. Good- to very good condition. Item #55657
ISBN: 0226312429
Price: $75.00