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Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation Without a State

The Case of Nineteenth-century Poland

By: Agnieszka Barbara Nance

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Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation Without a State

The Case of Nineteenth-century Poland

By: Agnieszka Barbara Nance

Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation without a State applies Benedict Anderson's theory about the coherence of imagined communities by tracing how Galicia, the heart of Polish culture in the nineteenth-century - which would never be an independent nation-state - emerged as a historical and cultural touchstone with present-day significance for the people of Europe. After the Three Partitions and Poland's complete disappearance from Europe's political map, images of Poland arose to replace the lost kingdom with a national identity grounded in culture and tradition rather than in politics. This book examines the circumstances leading to Galicia's emergence as the imagined and representative center of Polish culture, juxtaposing the era's political realities with its literary texts to provide evidence of the cultural community that existed among ethnic Germans and Poles. Collectively, these images reflect a dialogue about Polish identity, and in consequence about the rise of a new European identity that did not correspond to ethnic nation-states but rather to a shared culture, history, and community that Galicia came to represent until its division between Poland and the Ukraine following World War I.

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Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation Without a State

The Case of Nineteenth-century Poland

By: Agnieszka Barbara Nance

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Challenging Citizens: Democratic Innovations at the Local Level

The Case Study of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland

By: Pavel Šaradín,Hana Hurtíková,Michal Soukop,Markéta Zapletalová,Agnieszka Zogata-Kusz,Ewa Ganowicz

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Challenging Citizens: Democratic Innovations at the Local Level

The Case Study of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland

By: Pavel Šaradín,Hana Hurtíková,Michal Soukop,Markéta Zapletalová,Agnieszka Zogata-Kusz,Ewa Ganowicz

The book aims to complement the existing research on democratic innovations mainly by making unique comparative analyses of the democratic innovations at the local level in selected European post-communist countries, i.e. the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. Democratic innovations can help overcome political apathy, decreased confidence in democracy and improve efficiency of governance. We traditionally consider cities and municipalities to be cradles of democracy and connect them with deliberations on the further development of democratic theory and political practice. We therefore argue that the local level is a suitable arena and laboratory for both changes of institutional settings within the traditional model of representative democracy, and the structural changes, which concern changing relations between local representatives and citizens.

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Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation Without a State

Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation Without a State

Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation Without a State

Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation Without a State

Challenging Citizens: Democratic Innovations at the Local Level

Challenging Citizens: Democratic Innovations at the Local Level

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