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  • EDITION:
    2nd Edition
  • ISBN:
    0231128193
  • ISBN-13:
    9780231128193
  • PUB. DATE:
    March 2005
  • PUBLISHER:
    Columbia University Press
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God's Playground: A History of Poland, Volume 2 (Revised Edition) / Edition 2 by Norman Davies

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Excellent but rough going in spotsby Anonymous

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This is not a book for the casual history fan. But if you have a true interest in Poland, Davies' book will reward your effort. At several points in the book, I almost gave up because of the intricate details (particularly about money) that pepper the book. Ultimately, I stayed with it, and I'm glad I did. In fact, I'm looking forward to Volume 2. (One sad note on Vol. 2 is that it was published...

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God's Playground

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  • Pub. Date: March 2005
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Sales Rank: 163,491

Synopsis

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.

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Superbly readable, rich in detail yet never boring or trivial . . . This is beyond doubt not only the best book on Poland in the English language, it is the best book on Poland.

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Biography

Norman Davies is chair of the history department, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, at the University of London.