The German Historical Institute Warsaw (GHIW) and the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences (IH PAN) invite proposals for the book series “Poland: Transnational Histories”, published with Routledge.
Launched in 2024, the first volumes have attracted considerable attention from the international academic community and are now available in paperback edition.
Our understanding of “transnational histories” is informed by approaches such as the new imperial histories, translocal histories, or global histories. It transcends the bilateral concepts of relational history or histoire croisée. This series presents interwoven histories that include diverse ethnicities, religions, cultures, and social classes.
We seek original manuscripts that analyze the mobilities and shifts (of borders, people, or concepts) characteristic of Polish history. We expect authors to contextualize their studies within broader historical developments beyond Polish territories and to examine the complexities and entanglements of Poland’s past as the norm rather than as the exception.
We welcome studies addressing the following topics:
- social and spatial migrations;
- cultural and intellectual transfers;
- social and economic changes;
- ethnic, linguistic, or religious interrelationships;
- environmental and natural histories (especially in borderlands).
We are open to other innovative research approaches in terms of topics, methods, and sources.
Please send your proposals to Annika Wienert (GHIW), wienert@dhi.waw.pl. Proposals are accepted on a rolling basis. They will be evaluated by the series editors and subsequently undergo an external, double-blind peer review process.
Please note that we can only accept proposals in English.
Series editors:
Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska (GHIW, managing editor), Catherine Gousseff (CNRS Paris), Maciej Górny (IH PAN), Maciej Janowski (IH PAN), Miloš Řezník (Chemnitz University of Technology), and Keely Stauter-Halsted (University of Illinois Chicago).
Volumes available:
- Vol. 1: Alexej Lochmatow: Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956
- Vol. 2: Raluca Goleșteanu-Jacobs: Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom: Sociocultural Development, 1866–1914
- Vol. 3: Aleksander Łupienko (ed.): Urban Communities and Memories in East-Central Europe in the Modern Age
- Vol. 4: Izabela Paszko: Informal Communication and Occupation in the Polish Borderlands: Fragmented Worlds in East Upper Silesia, 1939–1945 (forthcoming)