Patrice M Dabrowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1554566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrice M Dabrowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrice M |
| FAMILY NAME | Dabrowski |
| SIGNATURE | DABROWSKI P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8766-7902 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 41 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A roundtable on Natalie Cornett’s The Politics of Love
Since 2015, our journal’s publisher, Taylor & Francis, has sponsored the Canadian Association of Slavists’ Taylor & Francis Book Prize. It is awarded annually for the best academic book in Slavic
Amato, Anthony J. The Stark Carpathians
With his second highly original book on the Hutsuls and their region, Anthony J. Amato is proving himself to be the most impressive American scholar of the subject.He already has authored a major work of environmental and economic history on the Hutsul region, The Carpathians, the Hutsuls, and Ukraine: An Environmental History (Lexington Books, 2021).These two hefty and learned volumes shed a penetrating light on the vagaries of the region as a p…
Multicultural Commonwealth
Tales from the Borderlands
The borderlands of Central and Eastern Europe have long interested Omer Bartov. Over two decades of research and discovery—already to some degree manifest in three earlier books (Erased [2007], Anatomy of a Genocide [2018], and Voices on War and Genocide [2020])—have given birth to this very “personal book,” clearly a labor of love (p. x). A fitting coda to his previous works, it is a first-person history written not only from below but also from…
Interwar East Central Europe, 1918–1941
Relatively few scholars have taken it upon themselves to write a history of interwar East Central Europe, that brief, twenty-year period between the two World Wars that laid the groundwork for the emergence of nation-states in a region previously dominated by empires. With the publication of Interwar East Central Europe, 1918–1941: The Failure of Democracy-Building, the Fate of Minorities, Joseph Rothschild's country-by-country survey—East Centra…
The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity
The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity is a powerful and provocative little gem of a book, one well worth reading and pondering. The somewhat unwieldy title reflects the author's contention that post-1989 Poland might be construed as the least “Polish” of the political permutations that emerged after the demise of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (which Kamusella consistently refers to as Poland-Lithuania)…
On Civilization's Edge
Józef Piłsudski once quipped that Poland was like a bagel: everything of substance on the outside, empty inside. That was his way of valorizing the so-called Kresy, the eastern borderlands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Dating from the Romantic period of the nineteenth century, the myth of the Kresy celebrated a Polish-ruled multiethnic space where diversity and difference had been respected. It has been argued that Piłsudski and h…
Dla kogo Bieszczady? Janusza Rygielskiego wkład w dyskusję (lata siedemdziesiąte–wczesne lata osiemdziesiąte XX wieku)
The Bieszczady mountain range, a mere 0.2% of the territory of the Polish People’s Republic (PRL), was the only part of the country where a significant public dispute arose about its spatial development. The article presents the contributions of a man who almost singlehandedly initiated and stoked the discussion about the fate of this secondarily wild terrain, one of the wildest in Europe. Janusz Rygielski — scientist, journalist, tourist activis…
From Citizens to Subjects
Book Review| December 01 2021 From Citizens to Subjects: City, State, & the Enlightenment in Poland, Ukraine, & Belarus Curtis G. Murphy, From Citizens to Subjects: City, State, & the Enlightenment in Poland, Ukraine, & Belarus. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies, edited by Jonathan Harris (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), 320 pp., bibliography, index. ISBN 13: 978-0-8829-6462-9, ISBN 10: 0-8229-6462-7. Patrice M. …
Long Awaited West
Memory Laws, Memory Wars
Book Review| October 01 2021 Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia Nikolay Koposov, Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia, New Studies in European History, ed. Peter Baldwin et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 321 pp., index. ISBN 978-1-108-41016-8. Patrice M. Dabrowski Patrice M. Dabrowski Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Search for other works by this auth…
Polish Patriotism after 1989
Book Review| December 01 2021 Polish Patriotism after 1989: Concepts, Debates, Identities Dorota Szeligowska, Polish Patriotism after 1989: Concepts, Debates, Identities, Nationalisms across the Globe, volume 17, edited by Tomasz Kamusella and Krzysztof Jaskułowski (Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2016), 310 pp., appendix, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-3-0343-1992-8. Patrice M. Dabrowski Patrice M. Dabrowski Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Patrice…
On Forgetting, Displacement, and Historical Error in Polish History
Singling out Polish-Jewish relations as the major problem has come quite late in the millennium or so of Polish history. The present essay approaches Polish history from a different angle, considering its very nature as well as some important yet inconvenient facts that have been forgotten or displaced. What actually constitutes Polish history is presented as problematic. The historic divide between the nobility (Sarmatians) and the numerous peas…
Imaginations and Configurations of Polish Society
Odkrywamy powtórnie Bieszczady”. Idealizacja gór w PRL-u i jej oddźwięk
The change of Poland’s borders after the Second World War meant that the Eastern Carpathians, beloved by Polish tourists, became inaccessible for the citizens of the new Polish People’s Republic. The mountain range’s place in the imagination of Poles was soon taken by the western Bieszczady Mountains. Although already in the 1950s there was interest in these mountains, which had been left practically uninhabited after Operation Vistula and thus r…
Reinforcing the border, reconfiguring identities
Established in the wake of the First World War, the multiethnic Polish Second Republic was determined to secure its long southern border, formed by the Carpathian Mountains, which prior to the war had been the internal (porous) Habsburg frontier separating the province of Galicia from Hungary. The article presents a series of initiatives essentially emanating from the state (here, primarily the military authorities) in the 1930s. The initiatives …
Crossing Central Europe
This volume studies elements of Austro-Hungarian or Central European culture that were common across linguistic, national, and ethnic communities, and shows how some of these commonalities survived or were transformed by the turmoil of the 20th century: two world wars, a major depression between the wars, Stalinism and the Iron Curtain
Curtain of Lies
Between the Brown and the Red
Book Review| April 01 2019 Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism, and Communism in 20th-Century Poland—The Politics of Bolesław Piasecki Mikołaj Stanisław Kunicki, Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism, and Communism in 20th-Century Poland—The Politics of Bolesław Piasecki. Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American Studies Series, ed. John J. Bukowczyk (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012), 272 pp. ISBN-…
Money, Power, and Influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania
King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe
This encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine European history and politics, with effects that are still felt today. Edited by Joep Le…
Two Roads Diverge
Whose Memory? Which Future? Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central, and Southeastern Europe
Chasing Warsaw
Book Review| April 01 2018 Chasing Warsaw: Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990 Monika Grubbauer and Joanna Kusiak, eds., Chasing Warsaw: Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990, (Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2012). 336 pp., illustrations, index. ISBN 978-3-593-39778-8. Patrice M. Dabrowski Patrice M. Dabrowski Independent historian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2018) …
Primed for Violence
Book Review| December 01 2017 Primed for Violence: Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland Paul Brykczynski, Primed for Violence: Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016). 215 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-0-299-30700-4. Patrice M. Dabrowski Patrice M. Dabrowski Independent historian Search for other works by this author on: This S…
Discovering” the Galician Borderlands
What happens when the modern world intrudes upon an isolated mountain region, particularly one that is a borderland par excellence? Patrice Dabrowski examines the moment of “discovery” of the most remote corner of Habsburg Galicia, the Carpathian Mountain region known as the Eastern Beskids and identified with its rugged yet artistically talented highland inhabitants, the Hutsuls. The discovery was facilitated by an ethnographic exhibition in Koł…
Reinforcing the border, reconfiguring identities
Established in the wake of the First World War, the multiethnic Polish Second Republic was determined to secure its long southern border, formed by the Carpathian Mountains, which prior to the war had been the internal (porous) Habsburg frontier separating the province of Galicia from Hungary. The article presents a series of initiatives essentially emanating from the state (here, primarily the military authorities) in the 1930s. The initiatives …
Uses and Abuses of the Polish Past by Józef Piłsudski and Roman Dmowski
Research Article| July 01 2011 USES AND ABUSES OF THE POLISH PAST BY JÓZEF PIŁSUDSKI AND ROMAN DMOWSKI PATRICE M. DABROWSKI PATRICE M. DABROWSKI Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2011) 56 (1-2): 73–109. https://doi.org/10.2307/41549950 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation PATRICE M. DABROWSKI; USES AND ABUSES OF THE POLISH PAST BY JÓZEF PIŁSUD…
Folk, Faith and Fatherland
On the north wall of Cracow's Church of the Annunciation (better known as the Carmelite Church at Piaski) hangs a long-ignored inscription. A simple stone tablet unprotected from the elements, its words have faded over the past century. One must strain to make out its cryptic message: “On September 11, 1883, Polish villagers gathered in Cracow solemnly celebrated the two hundredth anniversary of the relief of Vienna by John Sobieski, in remembran…
What Kind of Modernity Did Poles Need? A Look at Nineteenth-Century Nation-Making
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Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland
Introduction Part one: The early period 1. Polish Phoenix: The Kraszewski Jubilee of 1879 2. The Relief of Vienna, 1683-1883: Celebrating Victory Part two: The 'nineties 3. Eloquent Ashes: The Translation of Adam Mickiewicz's Remains 4. Poland Has Not Yet Perished: From the Third of May to the Kosciuszko Insurrection 5. Bronzing the Bard: The Mickiewicz Monuments of 1898 Part three: The first years of the twentieth century 6. Teutons versus Slavs…
Discovering” the Galician Borderlands
What happens when the modern world intrudes upon an isolated mountain region, particularly one that is a borderland par excellence? Patrice Dabrowski examines the moment of “discovery” of the most remote corner of Habsburg Galicia, the Carpathian Mountain region known as the Eastern Beskids and identified with its rugged yet artistically talented highland inhabitants, the Hutsuls. The discovery was facilitated by an ethnographic exhibition in Koł…
"Medicis for the Fatherland"? Artists and Cracow, 1879-1910
This article focuses on the fascinating role played by several Polish artists in several Polish historical commemorations. These celebrations, held in the city of Cracow, took place in the last decades before the reestablishment of an independent Polish state. Painters felt moved to enter the public sphere during this period; in the process they became, or attempted to become, benefactors ("Medicis") of the nation. Although three artists - Henryk…
Uses and Abuses of the Polish Past by Józef Piłsudski and Roman Dmowski
Research Article| July 01 2011 USES AND ABUSES OF THE POLISH PAST BY JÓZEF PIŁSUDSKI AND ROMAN DMOWSKI PATRICE M. DABROWSKI PATRICE M. DABROWSKI Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2011) 56 (1-2): 73–109. https://doi.org/10.2307/41549950 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation PATRICE M. DABROWSKI; USES AND ABUSES OF THE POLISH PAST BY JÓZEF PIŁSUD…
Commemorating Józef Piłsudski (1867-1935)
Other| July 01 2011 COMMEMORATING JÓZEF PIŁSUDSKI (1867-1935) PATRICE M. DABROWSKI PATRICE M. DABROWSKI Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2011) 56 (1-2): 3–5. https://doi.org/10.2307/41549944 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation PATRICE M. DABROWSKI; COMMEMORATING JÓZEF PIŁSUDSKI (1867-1935). The Polish Review 1 July 2011; 56 (1-2): 3–5. doi: …
Committing Community
Book Review| December 01 2013 Committing Community: Carpatho-Rusyn Studies as an Emerging Scholarly Discipline Elaine Rusinko, ed., Committing Community: Carpatho-Rusyn Studies as an Emerging Scholarly Discipline, (New York: Columbia University Press, East European Monographs, 2009), xii + 399 pp. ISBN 9780880336451. Patrice M. Dabrowski Patrice M. Dabrowski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2013) 58 (4…
Multiple Visions, Multiple Viewpoints
The article views the little-known apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Dittrichswalde (Gietrzwałd) in 1877-80 through the prism of the varied religious imagery they evoked and promoted. After considering pre-1877 fixed images of and attitudes toward the Virgin Mary in their historical and cultural context in the Polish-German borderland of Ermland (Warmia), the initial images of the apparitions as well as the three primary dr…
Ukraine Between East and West
Book Review| December 01 2013 Ukraine Between East and West: Essays on Cultural History to the Early Eighteenth Century Ihor Ševčenko, Ukraine Between East and West: Essays on Cultural History to the Early Eighteenth Century, 2nd rev. ed. (Edmonton and Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, The Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research Monograph Series 1, 2009), xix + 236 pp., index. ISBN 978-1895571141. Patrice M. Dab…
Ukrainian Drama and Theater in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Mapping Europe’s Borderlands
Hutsul Art or “Hutsul Art”
This article is concerned with the fate of the Hutsul kilim and, by extension, Polish-Ukrainian relations in the interwar period. This was a period when the Hutsul highlanders of the Eastern Carpathians (today citizens of modern Ukraine), the traditional weavers of these geometrically-patterned woolen rugs, found themselves within the newly established Second Polish Republic. Most commercial weaving was in Jewish hands at this time, and this prod…
Między etnografią a sztuką
Book Review| December 01 2016 Między etnografią a sztuką: Mitologizacja Hucułów i Huculszczyzny w kulturze polskej [sic] XIX i XX wieku [Between ethnography and art: The mythologization of the Hutsuls and the Hutsul lands in Polish culture during the 19th and 20th centuries] Agnieszka Jankowska-Marzec, Między etnografią a sztuką: Mitologizacja Hucułów i Huculszczyzny w kulturze polskej [sic] XIX i XX wieku [Between ethnography and art: The mythol…
Primed for Violence
Book Review| December 01 2017 Primed for Violence: Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland Paul Brykczynski, Primed for Violence: Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016). 215 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-0-299-30700-4. Patrice M. Dabrowski Patrice M. Dabrowski Independent historian Search for other works by this author on: This S…
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe
This encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine European history and politics, with effects that are still felt today. Edited by Joep Le…
Two Roads Diverge
Whose Memory? Which Future? Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central, and Southeastern Europe
Chasing Warsaw
Book Review| April 01 2018 Chasing Warsaw: Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990 Monika Grubbauer and Joanna Kusiak, eds., Chasing Warsaw: Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990, (Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2012). 336 pp., illustrations, index. ISBN 978-3-593-39778-8. Patrice M. Dabrowski Patrice M. Dabrowski Independent historian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2018) …
The Future of the Past
Book Review| October 01 2018 The Future of the Past: New Perspectives on Ukrainian History Serhii Plokhy, ed., The Future of the Past: New Perspectives on Ukrainian History. Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies (Cambridge: distributed by Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2016). 506 pp. Index. ISBN 9781932650167. Patrice M. Dabrowski Patrice M. Dabrowski Independent Researcher Search for other works …
Odkrywamy powtórnie Bieszczady”. Idealizacja gór w PRL-u i jej oddźwięk
The change of Poland’s borders after the Second World War meant that the Eastern Carpathians, beloved by Polish tourists, became inaccessible for the citizens of the new Polish People’s Republic. The mountain range’s place in the imagination of Poles was soon taken by the western Bieszczady Mountains. Although already in the 1950s there was interest in these mountains, which had been left practically uninhabited after Operation Vistula and thus r…
Reinforcing the border, reconfiguring identities
Established in the wake of the First World War, the multiethnic Polish Second Republic was determined to secure its long southern border, formed by the Carpathian Mountains, which prior to the war had been the internal (porous) Habsburg frontier separating the province of Galicia from Hungary. The article presents a series of initiatives essentially emanating from the state (here, primarily the military authorities) in the 1930s. The initiatives …
Crossing Central Europe
This volume studies elements of Austro-Hungarian or Central European culture that were common across linguistic, national, and ethnic communities, and shows how some of these commonalities survived or were transformed by the turmoil of the 20th century: two world wars, a major depression between the wars, Stalinism and the Iron Curtain
Curtain of Lies
Between the Brown and the Red
Book Review| April 01 2019 Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism, and Communism in 20th-Century Poland—The Politics of Bolesław Piasecki Mikołaj Stanisław Kunicki, Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism, and Communism in 20th-Century Poland—The Politics of Bolesław Piasecki. Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American Studies Series, ed. John J. Bukowczyk (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012), 272 pp. ISBN-…
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