Poland From Partitions to EU Accession - 9783319971254

Poland From Partitions to EU AccessionA Modern Economic History, 17722004\nAuthor(s): Piotr Kory?\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783319971254, 978-3319971254\nSynopsis\nThis book surveys Polands move from being a post-feudal, backward, peripheral country to being a modern, capitalist, European state: from the partition of the commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania to the abolishment of second serfdom; late industrialization to state socialism; post-partition fragmentation to post-Second World War westward dislocation; and from the Solidarno?? movement to accession into the European Union.\n\nCould Poland really be considered an underdeveloped nation throughout the last 200 years? What factors contributed to its backwardness? Has Poland yet managed to catch up with the West? This book, the first overview of the modern economic history of Poland to be published in English, addresses these and many ot.