Overview
- Reviews the complex path of development of modern Polish economy in last 200 years
- Analyzes the importance of Polish industrialization in the European periphery
- Provides extensive socioeconomic historical data of Polish lands
- Provides an overview of crucial intellectual debates on modernization of Poland
- Analyzes the effects of discontinuity on socioeconomic development
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This book surveys Poland’s 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 ‘Solidarność’ movement to accession into the European Union.
Could 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 other questions crucial for developing our understanding of the economic history of modern Central-Eastern Europe. The economic development of Poland is analyzed through data and statistics, as well as through analysis of the ideas that paved theway for the politics of economic and social modernization.
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Keywords
- Transition Economics
- State socialism
- Soviet occupation
- Nazi occupation
- World Wars
- Polish lands
- Economic growth
- Polish political economy
- Polish economic development
- Industrialization in Poland
- Social modernization in Poland
- Communist modernization
- Post-feudal
- European state
- Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania
- Polish economic history
- Central-Eastern European economics
- Republic of Poland
- EU accession
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Piotr Koryś teaches economic history at the Faculty of Economic Science at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He also holds the position of Research Fellow at the same institution. He spent the academic year 2016-2017 as Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria, wherein he worked on this book. His research interests focus on both quantitative and qualitative modern economic histories of Poland and Central Eastern Europe.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Poland From Partitions to EU Accession
Book Subtitle: A Modern Economic History, 1772–2004
Authors: Piotr Koryś
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97126-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97125-4Published: 13 December 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40434-5Published: 18 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97126-1Published: 29 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 390
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, European Economics, Development Economics, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics