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The rough guide to Poland
The essential handbook to your destination, with accounts of all the attractions. Includes reviews of where to stay, eat and drink for all budgets, as well as maps for all areas.
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Nowa Huta
Kinga Pozniak shows how the political, economic, and social upheavals in Nowa Huta, Poland have profoundly shaped the memory of these events in the minds of three generations of people who lived through them since the end of the Second World War.
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The ice saints
\"A young English woman arrives in the Polish People's Republic to visit her older sister, who married a Polish soldier after the war and disappeared into a life behind the Iron Curtain.\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Krakow
Like most cities, Poland’s Krakow developed around and because of its favorable geography. Before Warsaw, Krakow served as Poland’s capital for half a millennium. It has functioned as a cultural center, an industrial center, a center of learning, and home for millions of people. Behind all of this lies the city’s environment: its fauna and plant life, the Vistula River, the surrounding countryside rich with resources, and man-made change that has allowed the city to flourish. In Krakow: An Ecobiography, the contributors use the city as a lens to focus these social and natural intricacies to shed new light on one of Europe’s urban treasures. With chapters on pollution, water systems, the city’s natural network with the surrounding area, urban infrastructure, and more, Krakow demonstrates how much an environmental perspective can bring to the understanding of Poland’s history and the challenges presented by the heritage of the past.
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Violent Space
For Nazi Germany, the ghetto was a conceptual tool used to
facilitate social and political exclusion and further their
anti-Jewish campaign. For the Jews who lived in them, the ghettos
became the center of their lives-even though they were also sites
of immense suffering.
Combining thorough historical research with an interdisciplinary
analysis of the relationship between space and violence,
Violent Space provides a unique insight into the history
and the socio-spatial topography of the Jewish ghetto in
German-occupied Warsaw (1939-1943). Using rare archival materials
and firsthand accounts, many of which have never been translated
into English, Anja Nowak traces out the trauma that the space of
the ghetto inflicted on its Jewish inhabitants, and how it
alienated, disoriented, and harmed them.
While the physical ghetto-its buildings, boundaries, and
streets-has been reabsorbed and redefined by modern-day Warsaw's
urban structure, Violent Space shows us that its presence
still lingers in the narratives of those who were forced into this
first phase of the Holocaust.
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Building Fortress Europe
What happens when a region accustomed to violent shifts in borders is subjected to a new, peaceful partitioning? Has the European Union spent the last decade creating a new Iron Curtain at its fringes?Building Fortress Europe: The Polish-Ukrainian Frontierexamines these questions from the perspective of the EU's new eastern external boundary. Since the Schengen Agreement in 1985, European states have worked together to create a territory free of internal borders and with heavily policed external boundaries. In 2004 those boundaries shifted east as the EU expanded to include eight postsocialist countries-including Poland but excluding neighboring Ukraine. Through an analysis of their shared frontier,Building Fortress Europeprovides an ethnographic examination of the human, social, and political consequences of developing a specialized, targeted, and legally advanced border regime in the enlarged EU. Based on fieldwork conducted with border guards, officials, and migrants shuttling between Poland and Ukraine as well as extensive archival research,Building Fortress Europeshows how people in the two countries are adjusting to living on opposite sides of a new divide. Anthropologist Karolina S. Follis argues that the policing of economic migrants and asylum seekers is caught between the contradictory imperatives of the European Union's border security, economic needs of member states, and their declared commitment to human rights. The ethnography explores the lives of migrants, and their patterns of mobility, as framed by these contradictions. It suggests that only a political effort to address these tensions will lead to the creation of fairer and more humane border policies.
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Cultural traditions in Poland
Takes readers through a year of holidays and traditions in Poland. Many of the countrys holidays are based on Catholic holy daysbut traditional Polish customs, clothing, and food remain at the center of every occasion. Colorful images and clear text also help readers discover traditions and holidays unique to Poland, such as harvest festivals and family traditions.
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William and Rosalie
In 1941, newlyweds William and Rosalie Schiff are forcibly separated and sent on their individual odysseys through a surreal maze of hate. This is an account of two Polish Jews who survive six different German slave and prison camps throughout the Holocaust. It describes the struggle of the lovers to stay alive and find each other at war's end.
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