Piotr Puchalski
Biographic Data
| ID | 4282083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piotr Puchalski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piotr |
| FAMILY NAME | Puchalski |
| SIGNATURE | PUCHALSKI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4530-959X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Polska dyplomacja wobec “kwestii żydowskiej” w latach 1932–1939 [Polish diplomacy and the “Jewish Question,” 1932–1939]
According to American historian Holly Case, the quasi-scientific way of presenting problems and issues as “questions” that required “solutions” can be traced back to the nineteenth century, when a whole series of such “questions” emerged, from “Polish” to “Transylvanian.”1 Whereas the “Jewish question” has a particularly sinister ring to it, given the genocidal ways in which it was attempted to be addressed, in particular by Nazi Germany, histori…
Race and the Colour-Line
Especially since the second Russian aggression in Ukraine, scholars have made efforts to “decolonize” the history of Eastern Europe. Debates continue about what this “decolonization” should entail, but certainly it suggests bringing attention to racial and colonial practices, not only those that Russia has employed in its imperial politics but also the less apparent ones that lingered below the surface in the histories of other countries in the r…
Colonial Connections, Postcolonial Insecurities
The article uses a postcolonial lens to analyze the triangular relationship between the Polish officers commissioned to the Royal West African Frontier Force, their British colleagues, and African inferiors in the years 1941–1943. I argue that despite the disparaging racial classification by the British, many Polish officers in West Africa aspired to become a sort of colonial intermediaries used not only for essential practical tasks during warti…
Challenging the Black Legend
In 1968, American historian Henry L. Roberts summed up the diplomacy of “Colonel Beck” in the following words: “he was not one of the really malignant creatures of the decade,” but his “unfortunate actions,” especially in 1938, “compounded the weakness of the existing international order.”1 This still remains a rather favorable portrayal of Beck in Western historiography, where the last interwar Polish foreign minister continues to be accused of …
Emigrants into colonists
Starting in the late-nineteenth century, Polish national elites considered emigration a ‘necessary evil’ that alleviated local economic pressures. In the face of an exodus from all of the partitions, leaders of many political persuasions worked to channel the emigration of peasants towards destinations such as Paraná, where a ‘New Poland’ could be built. In the 1920s, the emerging inter-war Polish state created a sprawling emigration apparatus th…
Polityka narodowościowa i kolonialna Związku Radzieckiego w ujęciu historiografii amerykańskiej
Changes in American interpretations of Soviet nationality policies have reflected broader shifts in U.S. historiography of the former U.S.S.R. Notwithstanding pro-Soviet apologists, U.S. scholars initially viewed the Soviet expansion into neighboring non-Russian lands as forced and integral to the emergence of the Soviet “party-state.” In effect, the Soviet rule, in particular outside of ethnic Russia, was perceived as brutal and often colonial i…
Socjalistyczny Postkolonializm
Jewish Ludmir
Book Review| July 01 2018 Jewish Ludmir: The History and Tragedy of the Jewish Community of Volodymyr-Volynsky Volodymyr Muzychenko, Jewish Ludmir: The History and Tragedy of the Jewish Community of Volodymyr-Volynsky, translated by Marta D. Olynyk (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2015), Jews of Poland Series, edited by Antony Polonsky. 330 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. ISBN 978–1-61811-412-9. Piotr Puchalski Piotr Puchalski Univ…
White Eagle, Black Madonna
Book Review| July 01 2018 White Eagle, Black Madonna: One Thousand Years of the Polish Catholic Tradition Robert E. Alvis, White Eagle, Black Madonna: One Thousand Years of the Polish Catholic Tradition, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016), 349 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. ISBN 978–0-8232-7170-2. Piotr Puchalski Piotr Puchalski University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The …
Jabotinsky’s Children
Book Review| October 01 2018 Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism Daniel Kupfert Heller, Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017). 352 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. ISBN: 978-0-691-17475-4. Piotr Puchalski Piotr Puchalski University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The …
The Polish Mission to Liberia, 1934–1938
The Polish mission to Liberia (1934–8) was a series of diplomatic, commercial, and scientific initiatives carried out by Poland's Maritime and Colonial League and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Contextualizing the mission in terms of contemporary attempts to construct Poland's colonial identity, this article argues that Poland's colonial lobby imagined their presence in Liberia as a unique form of colonialism, distinct from its Western counterparts…
The Polish Mission to Liberia, 1934–1938
The Polish mission to Liberia (1934–8) was a series of diplomatic, commercial, and scientific initiatives carried out by Poland's Maritime and Colonial League and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Contextualizing the mission in terms of contemporary attempts to construct Poland's colonial identity, this article argues that Poland's colonial lobby imagined their presence in Liberia as a unique form of colonialism, distinct from its Western counterparts…
Emigrants into colonists
Starting in the late-nineteenth century, Polish national elites considered emigration a ‘necessary evil’ that alleviated local economic pressures. In the face of an exodus from all of the partitions, leaders of many political persuasions worked to channel the emigration of peasants towards destinations such as Paraná, where a ‘New Poland’ could be built. In the 1920s, the emerging inter-war Polish state created a sprawling emigration apparatus th…
The Polish Mission to Liberia, 1934–1938
The Polish mission to Liberia (1934–8) was a series of diplomatic, commercial, and scientific initiatives carried out by Poland's Maritime and Colonial League and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Contextualizing the mission in terms of contemporary attempts to construct Poland's colonial identity, this article argues that Poland's colonial lobby imagined their presence in Liberia as a unique form of colonialism, distinct from its Western counterparts…
Jewish Ludmir
Book Review| July 01 2018 Jewish Ludmir: The History and Tragedy of the Jewish Community of Volodymyr-Volynsky Volodymyr Muzychenko, Jewish Ludmir: The History and Tragedy of the Jewish Community of Volodymyr-Volynsky, translated by Marta D. Olynyk (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2015), Jews of Poland Series, edited by Antony Polonsky. 330 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. ISBN 978–1-61811-412-9. Piotr Puchalski Piotr Puchalski Univ…
White Eagle, Black Madonna
Book Review| July 01 2018 White Eagle, Black Madonna: One Thousand Years of the Polish Catholic Tradition Robert E. Alvis, White Eagle, Black Madonna: One Thousand Years of the Polish Catholic Tradition, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016), 349 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. ISBN 978–0-8232-7170-2. Piotr Puchalski Piotr Puchalski University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The …
Jabotinsky’s Children
Book Review| October 01 2018 Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism Daniel Kupfert Heller, Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017). 352 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. ISBN: 978-0-691-17475-4. Piotr Puchalski Piotr Puchalski University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The …
Polityka narodowościowa i kolonialna Związku Radzieckiego w ujęciu historiografii amerykańskiej
Changes in American interpretations of Soviet nationality policies have reflected broader shifts in U.S. historiography of the former U.S.S.R. Notwithstanding pro-Soviet apologists, U.S. scholars initially viewed the Soviet expansion into neighboring non-Russian lands as forced and integral to the emergence of the Soviet “party-state.” In effect, the Soviet rule, in particular outside of ethnic Russia, was perceived as brutal and often colonial i…
Socjalistyczny Postkolonializm
Emigrants into colonists
Starting in the late-nineteenth century, Polish national elites considered emigration a ‘necessary evil’ that alleviated local economic pressures. In the face of an exodus from all of the partitions, leaders of many political persuasions worked to channel the emigration of peasants towards destinations such as Paraná, where a ‘New Poland’ could be built. In the 1920s, the emerging inter-war Polish state created a sprawling emigration apparatus th…
Challenging the Black Legend
In 1968, American historian Henry L. Roberts summed up the diplomacy of “Colonel Beck” in the following words: “he was not one of the really malignant creatures of the decade,” but his “unfortunate actions,” especially in 1938, “compounded the weakness of the existing international order.”1 This still remains a rather favorable portrayal of Beck in Western historiography, where the last interwar Polish foreign minister continues to be accused of …
Race and the Colour-Line
Especially since the second Russian aggression in Ukraine, scholars have made efforts to “decolonize” the history of Eastern Europe. Debates continue about what this “decolonization” should entail, but certainly it suggests bringing attention to racial and colonial practices, not only those that Russia has employed in its imperial politics but also the less apparent ones that lingered below the surface in the histories of other countries in the r…
Colonial Connections, Postcolonial Insecurities
The article uses a postcolonial lens to analyze the triangular relationship between the Polish officers commissioned to the Royal West African Frontier Force, their British colleagues, and African inferiors in the years 1941–1943. I argue that despite the disparaging racial classification by the British, many Polish officers in West Africa aspired to become a sort of colonial intermediaries used not only for essential practical tasks during warti…
Polska dyplomacja wobec “kwestii żydowskiej” w latach 1932–1939 [Polish diplomacy and the “Jewish Question,” 1932–1939]
According to American historian Holly Case, the quasi-scientific way of presenting problems and issues as “questions” that required “solutions” can be traced back to the nineteenth century, when a whole series of such “questions” emerged, from “Polish” to “Transylvanian.”1 Whereas the “Jewish question” has a particularly sinister ring to it, given the genocidal ways in which it was attempted to be addressed, in particular by Nazi Germany, histori…
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