The Other Prussia

This book focuses on the history of Royal Prussia--the other Prussia--which was part of the Polish state from 1454 to 1793. It studies the complex relationship between Germans and Slavs in the Polish-Prussian borderlands and demonstrates the importance of national and historical myth-making for power politics. Analyzing the rivalry between the multinational constitutionalist Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its centralized dynastic neighbor Brandenburg-Prussia this study contributes to our understanding of the process of early modern nation-building and the formation of national identity.