Unintended Affinities

Download or read book Unintended Affinities written by Adam Kozuchowski and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-06-29 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unintended Affinities examines the ways in which German and Polish historians of the nineteenth-century regarded the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The book parallels how historians approached the old Reich and the Commonwealth within the framework of their national history. Kożuchowski analyzes how German and Polish nationalistic historians, who played central roles in propagandizing a glorious past that justified a centralized modern state, struggled with how to portray the very decentralized and multi-ethnic empires that preceded their time.