The Lands of Partitioned Poland 1795-1918

<p><i>The Lands of Partitioned Poland 1795-1918</i> comprehensively covers an important complex and controversial period in the history of Poland and East Central Europe beginning in 1795 when the remnanst of the Polish Commonwealth were distributed among Prussia Austria and Russia and culminating in 1918 with the re-establishment of an independent Polish state. Until this thorough and authoritative study literature on the subject in English has been limited to a few chapters in multiauthored works.<br/><br/>Chronologically Wandycz traces the histories of the lands under Prussian Austrian and Russian rule pointing out their divergent evolution as well as the threads that bound them together. The result is a balanced comprehensive picture of the social political economic and cultural developments of all nationalities inhabiting the land of the old commonwealth rather than a limited history of one state (Poland) and one people (the Poles).</p>