EGODOKUMENTY (LISTY I PAMIĘTNIKI) CHŁOPÓW KRÓLESTWA POLSKIEGO I CHŁOPSKICH MIGRANTÓW ZEŃ JAKO ŹRÓDŁA HISTORYCZNE (1864–1914)
Ego-Documents (Letters and Memoirs) of Peasants from the Kingdom of Poland and Polish Peasant Migrants as Historical Sources (1864–1914)

Summary/Abstract: The text presents examples of ego-documents (or personal documents) of peasants, here understood narrowly as letters and diaries, as sources for research into the history of the Polish Kingdom in the second half of the nineteenth century. A brief introduction to ego-documents as source material used in historical work is followed by a discussion of successive col- lections of letters (sent to periodicals, cor- respondence of emigrants and exiles) and diaries (including competition ones). Finally, the text presents a general overview of the peasants’ ego-documents as a collection of source material with suggestions for the future direction of research.

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