A cross-sectional look at the history of the Britons. Based on the analysis of written and archaeological sources, the author systematizes the knowledge on the history of the Britons in pre-Roman, Roman and Medieval periods, and presents the characteristics of social strata, literature, historiography, language, but also religion and the formation mechanism of Church structures.
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The author analyzes the development of industry in Lower Silesia in the years of 1936-1956 in the context of the question about the role of knowledge in the production process. He suggests a connection between the collapse of industrial production in the region after 1945 and the displacement of the German population. He shows the results of a loss of information networks, assuming that certain categories of knowledge cannot be "stored" in any other way than through human memory.
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A synthesis of the history of the Duchy of Warsaw. The author presents the political history of the Duchy, its role in Napoleon’s geopolitical Empire and the international political relations of that era. He discusses military issues, constitutional solutions and administrative models adopted in the new state, as well as its social problems, cultural, civilizational and mentality-related transformations. The author portrays the political attitudes of Poles living in the discussed period. He analyzes economic matters, especially the economic crisis of the Duchy.
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The author presents a new approach to the history of Israel. He distinguishes the history of the Hebrews, which can be reconstructed on the basis of biblical and non-biblical sources, from the mythical history created by the biblical writers, which he analyzes in terms of the role they played in the formation of the religious and national community of Jews in the ancient times.
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Although Czechoslovak legislation gave ethnic minorities liberal laws, the state administration sought to strengthen the position of the Czech nation at the expense of minorities. On the basis of the archival legacy of the Czech government institutions, the author shows the scale of the actions undertaken, which encompassed various areas of social and economic life.
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