The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy

"The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy" is a series of closely integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish thought and practice. It begins with the transformative events of the mid-nineteenth century, which witnessed revolutionary developments in the socioeconomic and demographic structure of Poland, and continues through changes that marked the postcommunist era of free Poland. This important work is the only single-volume English-language history of modern Polish democratic thought and parliamentary systems and represents the latest scholarly research by leading specialists from Europe and North America.

M.B.B. BISKUPSKI holds the Stanislaus A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies at Central Connecticut State University. His book Polish-Jewish Relations in North America (coedited with Antony Polonsky) won the 2009 Oskar Halecki Prize of the Polish American Historical Association. His latest book is Hollywood's War with Poland.
JAMES PULA is a professor of history at Purdue University North Central. He was twice awarded the Polish American Historical Association's prestigious Oskar Halecki Prize for outstanding books on Polonia as well as the Mieczyslaw Haiman Award for contributions to the study of Polonia. His books include Thaddeus Kosciuszko: The Purest Son of Liberty and Polish Americans: An Ethnic Community.
PIOTR J. WR+BEL holds the Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto. He has authored and coauthored many scholarly articles and nine books, including The Historical Dictionary of Poland, 1945-1996 and Nation and History: Polish Historians limn the Enlightenment to the Second World War (coedited with Peter Brock and John D. Stanley).