A Suburb of Europe : : Nineteenth-Century Polish Approaches to Western Civilization /

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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Jedlicki, Jerzy,
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

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