Research Catalog

Title

The United States and Poland / Piotr. S. Wandycz.

Author

Wandycz, Piotr S. (Piotr Stefan)

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 1980.

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Details

Description

ix, 465 pages : maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

American foreign policy library

Uniform Title

American foreign policy library.

Subjects

• Poland
• United States
• Poland > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > Poland
• USA
• Polen
• Internationale Politik
• Geschichte
• Außenpolitik
• Diplomatic relations

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-444) and index.

Contents

1. Partitions of Poland and the rise of the United States: From the origins of the Polish State to the union of Lublin ; The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until the partitions ; The American and Polish revolutions ; From Kościuszko's insurrection to the Congress of Vienna -- 2. The Polish question in the nineteenth century: The November insurrection: before and after ; The American Civil War and the insurrection of 1863 ; Postinsurrectionary decades at home and mass emigration to America ; Toward the First World War -- 3. Wilson and the rebirth of Poland: Polish efforts and neutral America ; The decisive years: 1917 and 1918 ; The Paris Peace Conference ; The Soviet-Polish War ; The Jewish issue -- 4. From peace to war: Reborn Poland ; The years of Parliamentary ascendancy ; Poland of Piłsudski ; Toward the Second World War -- 5. Roosevelt and Poland in the Second World War: The Polish war effort ; The grand alliance and its poor relatives ; The road to Teheran ; Warsaw, Yalta, Potsdam -- 6. In the shadow of Stalinism and the Cold War: The new Poland ; The period of transition, 1945 to 1947 ; Stalinism, containment, liberation ; Toward the Polish October -- 7. From Gomułka to GierekL Détente and its limits: The aftermath of 1956: gradualism ; Peaceful engagement in the early 1960s ; The years of crisis ; Gierek's Poland: the limits of Détente -- Reflections -- Appendix A: Diplomatic representatives -- Appendix B: Selective chronology.

ISBN

• 0674926854
• 9780674926851

LCCN

79011998

OCLC

• ocm04832056
• 4832056
• SCSB-5892

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library