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Melancholy of Power
The book discusses how the most severe abuses of political power, traditionally termed from the ancient times as ‘tyranny’, were presented in 16th century political philosophy, …
The Great War
This publication is a collection of articles which summarise results of investigations into archival materials concerning wartime stories of various nations involved in the Great …
Beyond the Trenches – The Social and Cultural Impact of the Great War
This collection of articles is the outcome of extensive investigations into archival materials, concerning the involvement of various nations in the Great War. The authors analyse …
Musealisation of Communism in Poland and East Central Europe
The monograph is the result of research conducted between 2014 and 2018 in historical museums in Central and Eastern Europe. The main goal of the book is to verify the thesis …
Polish State Railways as a Mode of Transport for Troops of the Warsaw Pact
The subject of the book is the history of the planned use of Polish railway infrastructure during the Cold War as part of the strategic plans of the Warsaw Pact. Analysing both …
The Origins of the Welfare State
The book focuses on the Polish social policy, its contextual (historical, organisational, conceptual, financial) conditionings, the institutions it fitted in, and primarily on the …
Leap into Modernity – Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943–1980
This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which …
Memory as Burden and Liberation
This book examines both the obvious and less obvious ways in which Germans struggle with their Nazi past. It embraces only a small part of a complex problem, which is impossible …
Poles in Kaiser’s Army On the Front of the First World War
The book describes the fate of Poles in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Poland did not exist for over a hundred years on the political map of Europe at that …
Spies and Diplomats
This book is a comprehensive work on the covert operations of the Spanish secret services throughout the 18th century. It is the fruit of a thorough study of what is known today as …
German Colonialism in Africa
In this volume, six experts from Europe and Africa present new insights from the field about various aspects of Germany’s colonial rule in Africa, raising doubt about the hitherto …
The Mysterious Death of Jan “Anoda” Rodowicz
Dr. Benken’s book is a case study of the life and death of Jan Rodowicz, nom-de-guerre Anoda, who served as a combatant in the Polish pro-independence underground resistance …