Böcker i Studies in History, Memory and Politics-serien

Based on extensive archival research and the newest jurisprudence in international law, this book inquires which of the events in Germany's colonies fulfil the criteria of genocide under current international law and whether there was a link between these events and the policies of the Third Reich in Central and Eastern Europe during World War II.

Using different methods and representing various academic disciplines, the authors of this anthology analyse Polish memory of the Nazi and Stalinist occupations, which are key components of Polish collective identity. The book presents the shape and social conditions of this memory as well as the conflicts and dilemmas related to it.

Focusing mainly on Poland and England in the 19th and early 20th centuries, this book looks at the critics of modernity, those who saw doom in the innovations and discoveries of their time and a degenerating civilization. This trend of gloomy forecasts and distaste for modern civilization has left its mark on the European culture of our times.

This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the "invisible hand of the market" as a panacea for underdevelopment.

This second of three parts of the History of the Polish Intelligentsia analyses the growing importance of the intelligentsia in the epoch marked by the triumph of Polish romanticism. The stress is put on the debates of the position of intelligentsia in the society, as well as on tensions between great romantic ideas and realities of everyday life.

This first of three parts of the History of the Polish Intelligentsia deals with the time from 1750 to 1831. It traces the formation of the intelligentsia as a social class, stresses the importance of the birth of bureaucratic institutions and analyses the results of the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795.

A comparative study of the anti-Semitic excesses carried out by the local populations of Warsaw, Paris, The Hague, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Kaunas in the early months of German occupation. The work looks into the incidents, the perpetrators, the German authorities, and the role these incidents played in the early stage of the "final solution".

Takes as its point of departure an enthusiasm for Baltic Sea region history which appeared in some European countries after fall of Iron Curtain. This book features emphasis on relation between historical narratives and political debates, makes it an interesting contribution to Baltic Sea region studies, and Central European historical studies.