A Suburb of Europe : : Nineteenth-Century Polish Approaches to Western Civilization / / Jerzy Jedlicki.
In this lively and original book, the distinguished Polish historian Jerzy Jedlicki tells the story of a century-long Polish dispute over the merits and demerits of the Western model of liberal progress and industrial civilization. As in several countries of Europe, also in Poland, intellectuals--c...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022] ©1999 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the English Edition
- Chronology
- Maps
- PART ONE. Images of the Future from the 1780s to 1863
- Chapter 1. National Identity and Cosmopolitan Civilization
- Chapter 2. "Natural" or "Artificial" Development
- Chapter 3. The Gospel and Economy
- PART TWO. Ambiguities of Progress from 1864 through the 1880s
- Chapter 4. Vicious Circles
- Chapter 5. Affirmation and Negation
- Chapter 6. Growth and Distribution
- Selected Bibliography
- Index