History of Poland in 19th century: The challenge of equality [3104-L3H19PL-19ANG] Semestr letni 2019/20
Ćwiczenia, grupa nr 1

List of primary and secondary sources is provided in the section: "Topics"

1. Introductory classes. Course outline, secondary sources, teaching methods, criteria for assessment and successful course completion

2. Starting point: The Polish society at the turn of the 19th century

Secondary source: Piotr Stefan Wandycz, The Lands of Partitioned Poland: 1795-1918 (Seattle–London, 1996), pp. 3–23; maps delivered to the group

3. An overview of the 19th century Polish history

Primary source: Manifestos of the Polish uprisings provided to students

Secondary source: Adam Zamoyski, Poland: A History (London: Harper Press), pp. 258–275

4. Landowners and peasants: old and new entanglements

Primary source: Jan Słomka, From Serfdom to Self-Government. Memoirs of a Polish Village Mayor 1842-1927, transl. by William J. Rose (London: Minerva Publishing Co., 1941), excerpts; pictures provided by the lecturer

Secondary source: John-Paul Himka, Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement (Edmonton: University of Alberta, 1988), pp. 1-11

5. Together and apart? Poles and Jews

Primary sources: Selected works from the volume: Stranger in Our Midst: Images of the Jew in Polish literature, ed. Harold B. Segel (Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2006)

Secondary sources: Israel Bartal, The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881, transl. by Chaya Naor (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), pp. 82-89; Maria Janion, Hero, Conspiracy, and Death: the Jewish Lectures, transl. by Alex Shannon (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Edition, 2014) (excerpts)

6. Jewishness and Polishness

Secondary sources: Rachel Manekin, The Lost Generation Education and Female Conversion in Fin-de-Siècle Kraków, in: Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 18, red. ChaeRan Freeze, Paula Hyman, Antony Polonsky, Oxford-Portland 2005, s. 189-220

7. Living in a shtetl, dreaming of a shtetl

Primary sources: Photographs provided by the lecturer

Secondary sources: 1) John D. Klier, ‘What Exactly is a Shtetl?’, in: Gennady Estraikh, Mikhail Krutikov (eds.), The Shtetl. Image and Reality (Oxford, 2000), pp. 23-33; 2) Fiddler on the Roof (chosen parts)

8. The absent half of society: legal and social barriers in the lives of women

Primary sources: Eliza Orzeszkowa, Marta. A Novel (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2018)

Secondary sources: Bogna Lorence-Kot, Adam Winiarz, The Polish Women’s Movement to 1914, in: Sylvia Paletschek, Bianka Pietrow-Ennker (eds.), Women’s Emancipation Movement in the 19th Century. A European Perspective, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), pp. 206-220.

9. New roles of women

Primary sources: Translated excerpts from the newspaper articles

Secondary sources: Sylvia Paletschek, Bianka Pietrow-Ennker, Women’s Emancipation Movement in the 19th Century. A European Perspective (Stanford: Stanford Unviersity Press, 2004), pp. 307-318; Iwona Dadej, Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk, Together and Apart. Polish Women's Rights Activists and the Beginnings of International Women's Day Around 1911, „Aspasia. The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History” 6/1 (2012), pp. 25-42

10. The birth and development of the intelligentsia

Primary sources: Excerpts of literary fiction provided to students

Secondary sources: Maciej Janowski, Birth of the Intelligentsia – 1750–1831. A History of the Polish Intelligentsia – Part 1, Jerzy Jedlicki (ed.) (Frankfurt am Main-New York, 2014); The Vicious Circle 1832–1864. A History of the Polish Intelligentsia – Part 2, Jerzy Jedlicki (ed.) (Frankfurt am Main-New York, 2014), excerpts

11. Polish Manchester – a Promised Land?

Primary sources: Władysław Reymont, The Promised Land, transl. by Michał S. Dziewicki (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927 [1899]), pp. 22-30

Secondary sources: Agata Zysiak, Kamil Śmiechowski, Kamil Piskała, Wiktor Marzec, Kaja Kaźmierska, Jacek Bursk, From Cotton and Smoke: Łódź – Industrial City and Discourses of Asynchronous Modernity, 1897–1994 (Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018), pp. 37-52

12. Dispersion: Siberia

Primary source: Memoirs of the exiles – excerpts provided by the lecturer

Secondary sources: Andrew A. Gentes, The Mass Deportation of Poles to Siberia, 1863-1880 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp 101-127

13. Mass Emigration: The Context

Secondary source: Dorota Praszaiowicz, Overseas Migration from Partitioned Poland: Poznania and Eastern Galicia as Case Studies, “Polish American Studies” 60/2 (2003), pp. 59-81

14. Emigration: perspective from abroad

Primary source: Letters from America – published in: William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1918-1920), vol. 1 (Chicago, 1918)

Secondary source: Mark Wyman, Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880–1930 (Ithaca–London, 2018), pp. 45–61

15. Student presentations and final remarks

Primary source analysis and discussion, exercises on the internet platform

Preparation to classes, preparation of exercises on the internet platform "Kampus", preparation of a presentation on a chosen topic