Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern PolandIndiana University Press, 2004年9月21日 - 336 頁 "This book represents the most sophisticated historiographical approach to understanding nation-building. Patrice Dabrowski demonstrates tremendous erudition... making brilliant use of contemporary newspapers and journals, as well as archival material." -- Larry Wolff, Boston College, author of Inventing Eastern Europe Patrice M. Dabrowski investigates the nation-building activities of Poles during the decades preceding World War I, when the stateless Poles were minorities within the empires of Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. Could Poles maintain a sense of national identity, or would they become Germans, Austrians, or Russians? Dabrowski demonstrates that Poles availed themselves of the ability to celebrate anniversaries of past deeds and personages to strengthen their nation from within, providing a ground for a national discourse capable of unifying Poles across political boundaries and social and cultural differences. Public commemorations such as the jubilee of the writer Jozef Kraszewski, the bicentennial of the Relief of Vienna, and the return to Poland of the remains of the poet Adam Mickiewicz are reconstructed here in vivid detail. |
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The Early Period | 23 |
Polish Phoenix The Kraszewski Jubilee of 1879 | 25 |
The Relief of Vienna 16831883 Celebrating Victory | 49 |
The 1890s | 75 |
Eloquent Ashes The Translation of Adam Mickiewiczs Remains | 77 |
Poland Has Not Yet Perished From the Third of May to the Kosciuszko Insurrection | 101 |
Bronzing the Bard The Mickiewicz Monuments of 1898 | 133 |
The First Years of the Twentieth Century | 157 |
Teutons versus Slavs? Commemorating the Battle of Grunwald | 159 |
Poles in Arms Insurrectionary Legacies | 184 |
Conclusion | 211 |
NOTES | 235 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 283 |
INDEX | 305 |