New Book Series: “Poland: Transnational Histories”

The newly established series at Routledge aims at presenting original research on the shifts and movements characteristic of Polish history, but is also embedded in broader developments beyond Poland’s borders. The works in the series examine the complexities and entanglements of Poland’s past as a rule rather than as an exception. They consider the ways particular elements and trends in Polish history resonate globally, on the one hand, and the impact of global trends on internal Polish developments, on the other.Our understanding of ‘transnational histories’ (such as new imperial history, trans-local history, and global history) reaches beyond the bilateral concepts ofisthhistoire croisée or Beziehungsgeschichte. Rather, we propose that each group’s history affects that of other groups, creating multiple and overlapping networks and relationships that must be considered. We aim at an entangled history without a single clear-cut subject, including multiple ethnicities, religions, cultures and social classes. Our focus is therefore on social and spatial mobilities and on intellectual and cultural movements. We are particularly interested in mutual changes, shifts, and tensions that occurred within and beyond Polish history, and we welcome proposals based on a variety of sources: textual, visual, cartographical etc. The topics presented within this series include:

  • histories of social and spatial migrations;
  • histories of cultural and intellectual transfers;
  • histories of social and economic changes;
  • histories of ethnic, linguistic, or religious interplays;
  • histories of environmental and natural developments (especially borderland history).

This series was initiated by the German Historical Institute in Warsaw and the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History  (Polish Academy of Sciences). The editors of the series are: Miloš Řezník (GHI Warsaw), Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska (GHI Warsaw, managing editor), Maciej Górny (Manteuffel Institute of History), Maciej Janowski (Manteuffel Institute of History), Catherine Gousseff (CNRS Paris), Keely Stauter-Halsted (University of Illinois Chicago).

Contact and proposals: saryusz-wolska@dhi.waw.pl

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