Poland From Partitions to EU Accession

Chapter 1 Introduction: From the “Little Divergence” to Successful EU Integration: Towards Economic History of Modern Poland

Chapter 2 The View from Afar: The Polish Economy Between the Golden Age and the Partitions (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Chapter 3 The Age of Enlightenment Reforms and Partitions of Poland: Economy and Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century (1772–1795)

Chapter 4 Between the Consolidation from Above and the Fragmentation of the State: Partitions, Duchy of Warsaw and Polish Lands After the Congress of Vienna (1795–1830)

Chapter 5 On the Peripheries of the Modern Western World: Delayed Social Reforms and Unfinished Industrial Revolution (1830–1870)

Chapter 6 The Dawn of Modern Economic Growth: Period of Late Industrialization (1870–1914)

Chapter 7 The Window of Opportunity: Polish Lands During the Great War (1914–1921)

Chapter 8 A Moment of Independence: Reconstruction and Economic Development of the Second Republic of Poland (1918/21–1939)

Chapter 9 Under the Nazi and Soviet Rule: Polish Lands During World War II (1939–1945)

Chapter 10 Communist Modernization? Economic Development of Poland Under State Socialism (1945–1989)

Chapter 11 In Pursuit of the Western World: Poland Between the Transition and the EU Accession (1989–2004)

Chapter 12 Conclusion: Two Centuries of Catching-up to the West