POLAND IN THE MODERN WORLD

60:p62:60:i62:Poland in the Modern World60:/i62: presents a history of the country from the late nineteenth century to the present incorporating new perspectives from social and cultural history and positioning it in a broad global context60:/p62: 60:ul62: 60:li62:Challenges traditional accounts Poland that tend to focus on national political history emphasizing the country8242:s 8242:exceptionalism8242:.60:/li62: 60:li62:Presents a lively multi8211:dimensional story balancing coverage of high politics with discussion of social cultural and economic changes and their effects on individuals daily lives.60:/li62: 60:li62:Explores both the regional diversity within Poland and the countrys place within Europe and the wider world.60:/li62: 60:li62:Provides a new interpretive framework for understanding key historical events in Polands modern history including the experiences of World War II and the postwar communist era.60:/li62: 60:/ul62:In this lively overview of Poland8242:s modern history Brian Porter8211:Sz38:uuml:cs sets the country in a broader context of Europe using the events of Poland8242:s past to illustrate and illuminate the global forces that have transformed the world over the last century.60:p62:This timely account of Poland8242:s modern history from the end of the 1960:sup62:th60:/sup62: century to the present day positions the country within the context of Europe using the events of Poland8242:s past to illustrate and illuminate the global forces that have transformed the world over the last century.38:nbsp:60:/p62: 60:p62:Challenging traditional nationalistic accounts of heroism and tragedy the author sets the major political events in Polish history alongside broader developments within society.38:nbsp:He provides particular insight into the regional cultural and economic diversity of the country and focusses on the experience of individuals8242: daily lives.38:nbsp:For instance readers learn of the day8211:to8211:day relations between people of differing religion and language between the two world wars the realities of life in the Warsaw ghetto: what Stalin8242:s industrial expansion meant for the peasants who took up factory jobs in the late 1940s and early 1950s the effects of changing concepts of masculinity and femininity over time. The result is a lively and nuanced historical overview that recognizes both the particularities and the universality of modern Polands story.60:/p62:60:p62:This timely account of Poland8242:s modern history from the end of the 1960:sup62:th60:/sup62: century to the present day positions the country within the context of Europe using the events of Poland8242:s past to illustrate and illuminate the global forces that have transformed the world over the last century.38:nbsp:60:/p62: 60:p62:Challenging traditional nationalistic accounts of heroism