Ruch narodowy na Pomorzu wobec zaborcy w XIX wieku

• Authors: Stanisław Salmonowicz

Title variants

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National movement in Pomerelia in the 19th century

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The aim of the discussed publication of Szczepan Wierzchosławski is to give a new perspective on many important issues for the history of the Polish lands of the Prussian partition. In ten essays, excluding introductory comments and the conclusion, the author presents his standpoint towards the problem of conditions and effects of the process of the modernization of Polish society on the example of cases from Pomerelia and the Kulm Land. The essential part of the author’s discussion is to what extend Polish society took advantage of the process of building a big capitalist, modern state, from the social and economic point of view, as well as of building the system of Rechtsstaat in Germany within the co-existence and capitalist competition. The work of Szczepan Wierzchosławski to a large extent eliminates a stereotypical perception concerning the co-existence of Poles and Germans in West Prussia (and not only) in the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, showing many elements of cooperation between both nations. He also presents the process of “growing out of” the feudal structures and the shaping of a modern nation within the German state. He undermines the stereotype that the Polish nation was monolithic, and the Prussian administration was alienated from the reality of the province. He shows Pomerelia as a small motherland of Poles and Germas, who inhabited the area in the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century.

Keywords

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Western Prussia; society; modernisation

• Publisher: Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu
• Journal: Zapiski Historyczne
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 77
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 147-156

Contributors

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Stanisław Salmonowicz

• Wydział Prawa i Administracji UMK