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God's Playground: A History of Poland is a history book in two volumes written by Norman Davies, covering a 1000-year history of Poland.Volume 1: The origins to 1795, and Volume 2: 1795 to the present first appeared as the Oxford Clarendon Press publication in 1981 and have since been reprinted in multiple times, [1] and translated into Polish as Boże igrzysko : Historia Polski by Elżbieta ...
The Cambridge History of Poland, 2 vols., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1941 (1697–1935), 1950 (to 1696). New York: Octagon Books, 1971 online edition vol 1 to 1696 Archived 13 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, old fashioned but highly detailed; Davies, Norman. God's Playground. A History of Poland. Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present.
Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland. Oxford University Press, 1984. 511 pp. excerpt and text search; Davies, Norman. God's Playground: A History of Poland. 2 vol. Columbia U. Press, 1982. 1,189 pp.; highly detailed, well-written narrative but criticized by some specialists online excerpts and search at Amazon.com; vol 1 to 1795
The history of Poland spans over a thousand years, from medieval tribes, Christianization and monarchy; through Poland's Golden Age, expansionism and becoming one of the largest European powers; to its collapse and partitions, two world wars, communism, and the restoration of democracy.
Baptism of Poland. [3] 967: Battle of Mieszko I with Wichmann and Wolinians: 970: Denarius becomes the currency of Poland 972: 24 June: Mieszko I defeats Odo I at the Battle of Cedynia: 989: Lesser Poland is conquered 990: After a victory against Boleslaus II, Silesia is annexed 992: May 25: Death of Mieszko I: 997
(For example, Norman Davies in God's Playground refers to the 1807 creation of the Duchy of Warsaw as the fourth partition, the 1815 Treaty of Vienna as the fifth, the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk as the sixth, and the 1939 division of Poland between Nazi Germany and the USSR as the seventh.) [28] However, in recent times, the 1815 division of ...
In 1984, Davies published Heart of Europe, a briefer, more essay-like history of Poland, in which the chapters are arranged in reverse chronological order. In the 1990s, Davies published Europe: A History (1996) and The Isles: A History (1999), about Europe and the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, respectively. Each book is a narrative ...
Confederation of Independent Poland (1979–present) National Revival of Poland (1981–present) National Party (1989–present) Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland (1992–present) National Radical Camp (1933–1934, 1935–1939, 1993–present) National-Catholic Movement (1997–present) Party of Regions (2007–present) National League ...