Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives

by Simon Lewis

An Innovative Study on Historical Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795) was once the largest country in Europe--a multicultural republic that was home to Belarusians, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Poles, Ruthenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, and other ethnic and religious groups. Although long since dissolved, the Commonwealth remains a rich resource for mythmaking in its descendent modern-day...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822948036
• ISBN13: 9780822948032
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 378 Pages