Mick, Christoph (2014) Colonialism in the Polish eastern borderlands 1919–1939. In: Healy , R. and Dal Lago, Enrico, (eds.) The shadow of colonialism on Europe’s modern past. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series . Basingstoke, England ; New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 126-141. ISBN 9781137450753
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Abstract
Historians applying the term colonialism to continental Europe often refer to partitioned Poland as a Russian, Prussian/German and Austrian colony. This essay touches on this subject but will mainly focus on the question whether the newly independent Second Polish Republic pursued a colonising policy in its eastern provinces. I will argue that Polish actions in the eastern borderlands had some colonialist traits but that these were more the policies of a nationalising state. Polish politicians did not have to study the overseas colonial policy of Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal or Spain but could take their own imperial past and their recent experiences with imperial centres as guide when developing a policy for the eastern territories of the new Polish state. It is therefore useful to look at Poland first as a potential colonizer and a potential colony prior to 1914, before turning to the question whether the term 'colonialism' can be applied to the policies pursued by the Second Polish Republic in its eastern provinces.
| Item Type: | Book Item |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain > DAW Central Europe |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Poland -- History -- 1918-1945, Colonization -- Europe |
| Series Name: | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Place of Publication: | Basingstoke, England ; New York, New York |
| ISBN: | 9781137450753 |
| Book Title: | The shadow of colonialism on Europe’s modern past |
| Editor: | Healy , R. and Dal Lago, Enrico |
| Official Date: | 2014 |
| Dates: | Date Event 2014 Published |
| Page Range: | pp. 126-141 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/9781137450753 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 July 2018 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 July 2018 |
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| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/90713/ |
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