Table of Contents

List of Maps Preface The People of Central Europe Poland in the Middle Ages The Jagiellonian Period Reformation and Renaissance in Poland The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Republic of the Nobility, 1669-1795 Years of Foreign Tutelage War and Independence, 1914-1939 The Second World War and the Establishment of Communism in Poland From Solidarity to the European Union Index

About the Author

ANITA J. PRAZMOWSKA is Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics.