God's Playground: A History of Poland: The Origins to 1795, Vol. 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231128179)

The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present. Abandoning the traditional nationalist approach to Polish history, Norman Davies instead stresses the country's rich multinational heritage and places the development of the Jewish German, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian communities firmly within the Polish context.

Davies emphasizes the cultural history of Poland through a presentation of extensive poetical, literary, and documentary texts in English translation. In each volume, chronological chapters of political narrative are interspersed with essays on religious, social, economic, constitutional, philosophical, and diplomatic themes.

This new edition has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century.

Author: Norman Davies
ISBN-10: 0231128177
ISBN-13: 9780231128179
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2005
Pages: 638
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d