A Concise History of Poland

This new edition has been fully updated to reflect recent developments within Poland, Eastern Europe, and the wider world.

Jerzy Lukowski is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham. His most recent books are The European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century (2003) and Disorderly Liberty: The Political Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century (2010).

List of illustrations and maps; Preface to the third edition; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; A note on Polish pronunciation; Chronology; Part I. Poland, to 1795: 1. Piast Poland, ?-1385; 2. Jagiellonian Poland, 1386-1572; 3. The Commonwealth of the two Nations, 1572-1795; Part II. Poland, after 1795: 4. Challenging the partitions, 1795-1864; 5. An era of transformation, 1864-1914; 6. Independence regained and lost, 1914-45; 7. Communism and the Cold War, 1945-89; 8. A new republic, 1989-; Geneaological charts of Polish rulers; List of heads of state, presidents, Communist Party leaders (1918-2018); Bibliography; Index.