P etro A ndreas N ungovitch . Here All Is Poland

Petro Andreas Nungovitch’s Here All Is Poland: A Pantheonic History of Wawel, 1787–2010 is a welcome contribution to the list of scholarly studies of Polish nationhood from the Partitions to the present. This book is the first English-language monograph about Kraków’s Wawel Hill and its place in Polish mythmaking. The author does not trace the expansion of the public choosing to define itself as “Polish” and deciding to act politically based on that definition, nor is the book centered on public political conflicts over defining Polishness. The book does not treat extensively Wawel Castle, medieval home of Polish kings, nor with a few exceptions does it consider in detail the royal remains buried in Wawel Cathedral. Instead, the focus is on the interment of nonroyal military, political, and cultural heroes in the Wawel Cathedral crypts. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth disappeared from the map in the late eighteenth century. Poland was reborn—in...

Archaeology · Commonwealth · Economic history · Linguistics · Lithuanian · Political science · Politics · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Classics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Soviet and Russian History