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What does civilization mean to the inhabitants of a Serbian town after yet another bloody war on the Balkan Peninsula? How do they evaluate the fact, once more proven, that long time friends and neighbors may end up killing each other? And how do they deal with the barbarity of war in the post-war period?In Serbian popular culture, the figure of the gypsy has always been invested with the mysterious power to unveil the mendacious undertones in the program of civilization. Wherever he appears - in jokes, songs, tales, literature, or movies - the civilized order is unmasked. This motif can be seen most dramatically in bars and taverns, where gypsy musicians lead their Serbian customers in veritable celebrations of wildness. 'This is real,' Serbs say about these gatherings where the canons of propriety and civilized behavior are overthrown with obvious relish.'This is life.'The author, who spent one and a half years in Serbia investigating these wild meetings, relates the 'unreason' of the behavior in these bars to the atrocities committed during the war which broke out during his stay. Highlighting how the program of civilization brings with it the need to construct an image of humankind more compatible with the lessons of history, Gypsies, Wars and Other Instances of the Wild may be read as a case-study of how war-infested societies cope with wartime traumas.Mattijs van de Port is a cultural anthropologist. The Dutch version of this book was awarded the prestigious academic prize of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation.Distributed by the University of Michigan Press in Canada and the United States and its dependencies.

Poland only sporadically makes the headlines of the Anglo-Saxon world, and its history remains comparatively unknown. It has suffered the dubious distinction of being wiped off the political map in 1795, to be resurrected after the First World War, to suffer seeming annihilation during the Second World War, reduction to satellite status of the Soviet Union after 1945, only to emerge during the 1980s. It is presently a contender for membership in the European Union. The only general introduction to the politics of Polish history in English, The Concise History of Poland covers medieval times to the present. The authors describe how Polish society developed under foreign rule in the 19th century and how it was altered by and responded to 45 years of communism, and developments since its collapse. Primarily a political outline of Poland's turbulent and complex past, it traces the process of its rise and fall from the middle ages, from a dynastic realm to a remarkable constitutional experiment in multinational, consensual politics, embracing much of Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus. Jerzy Lukowski is Senior Lecturer in Modern History, School of Historical Studies, at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is also the author of, The Partitions of Poland (Addison Wesley, 1998), and Liberty's Folly (Routledge, 1991), and many journal articles. Herbert Zawadzki is Teacher of History at Abingodn School, in Abingdon, UK. He spent the first ten years of his life in various Polish resettlement camps across the length and breadth of Britain, eventually settling near Stratford-on-Avon. He has since traveled extensively in Poland, Belarus, and Lithuania. He has written for several journals andcontributed to the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union (1994).

History of Poland (1945â€“1989) - The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Soviet Communist dominance over the People's Republic of Poland in the decades following World War II. These years, while featuring many improvements in the standards of living in Poland, were marred by political instability, social unrest, and several crippling economic depressions.

History of Poland (1939â€“1945) - On September 1, 1939, without formal declaration of war, Germany invaded Poland. Germany's pretext was that Polish troops had allegedly committed "provocations" along the German-Polish border, together with the dispute between Germany and Poland over German rights to the Free City of Danzig and to free passage between East Prussia and the rest of Germany through the Polish Corridor.

History of Poland (1795â€“1918) - Although the majority of the szlachta was reconciled to the end of the Commonwealth in 1795, the possibility of Polish independence was kept alive by events within and without Poland throughout the nineteenth century. Poland's location on the Northern European Lowlands became especially significant in a period when its neighbours, Prussia/Germany and Russia were intensely involved in European rivalries and alliances and modern nation states took form over the entire continent.

History of the Jews in Poland - The history of the Jews in Poland reaches back over a millennium. It ranges from a long period of religious tolerance and prosperity for the country's Jewish population to the nearly complete genocidal destruction of the community by Nazi Germany in the 20th century during the Holocaust.

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