Poland: Transnational Histories
About the Book Series
The borders of Poland have shifted dynamically throughout the country’s history, expanding and shrinking (or even vanishing), moving between the Baltic and the Black Seas, and the Oder and the Dnieper Rivers. Not unlike other states in the region, the spatial dynamics of Poland’s history have impacted its social structure: Poland has been home to diverse religious and ethnic groups, who migrated, assimilated, resisted assimilation, persevered or suppressed others. These forces of moving populations, shifting frontiers, and mixing of peoples have resulted in a complex and dynamic set of histories in the Polish space, a phenomenon as yet poorly understood in the wider scholarly community.
The books in this series aims at presenting original research on the shifts and movements characteristic of Polish history, but that is also embedded in broader developments beyond Poland’s borders. The works in the series examine the complexities and entanglements of Poland’s past as a rule rather than as an exception. They consider the ways particular elements and trends in Polish history resonate globally, on the one hand, and the impact of global trends on internal Polish developments, on the other.
The series is supported by the German Historical Institute Warsaw and the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Informal Communication and Occupation in the Polish Borderlands: Fragmented Worlds in East Upper Silesia, 1939–1945
1st Edition
By Izabela Paszko
November 17, 2025
The book explores the neglected role and social dynamics of informal communication – interpersonal channels not controlled ‘from above’ – in the region of Upper Silesia under the German occupation during the Second World War (1939–1945). Whereas the classic dichotomies, such as private-public ...
Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956
1st Edition
By Alexej Lochmatow
August 29, 2025
This book explores the public debates among scholars that took place in Early Cold War Poland. The author challenges the traditional narrative on the ‘Sovietisation’ of Central and Eastern European countries and proposes to see this process not as a spread of Marxist ideology or a Soviet ...
Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom: Sociocultural Development, 1866–1914
1st Edition
By Raluca Goleșteanu-Jacobs
July 31, 2025
This comparative attempt, intended for postgraduates and scholars of Eastern-Central Europe, investigates the political, economic, and cultural landscape of Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom in the second half of the 19th century. Often, in historiography and in the public sphere alike, the...
Urban Communities and Memories in East-Central Europe in the Modern Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Aleksander Łupienko
August 07, 2024
This edited volume studies the logic of community formation and the common view of the past to show how various social bonds of communities functioned during the modern national era of East-Central Europe from the late eighteenth century until today and how multifaceted this group-building really ...