Szelągowski Adam- The Growth of the Polish State in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Poland at the Turn of the Middle Ages and the New [1904].

Lvov 1904/Nakładem Polskiej Księgarnia B. Poloniecki/ binding of bookbinders, half canvas, signboard with title on spine/ p.X, [2], 404 / very good condition

Includes: Historical dynamics; Union of Poland and Lithuania; Jagiello and Vytautas; Powers of Poland - Zbigniew Oleśnicki; Polish colonization in the 13th and 14th centuries. The 13-year war; The beginnings of the landowner movement and the genesis of parliamentarism in Poland; Lithuania and Poland in the 15th century; The breaking of the nobility and the consolidation of the representative system in Poland; The reign of Sigismund the Old; The reign of Sigismund Augustus against the background of the Reformation currents.

Part Two: Historical statics: territorial arrangement, ethnography, church in Poland, monarchical power and government, parliament and legislature, land system, judiciary, treasury, military, social arrangement, economics, social farm system.

Szelągowski Adam - historian; 1907-39 professor at the University of Lvov; expert in Polish and universal modern history. and the latest, especially the 17th and 18th centuries; researcher of Polish maritime politics in the 16th-17th centuries and the January Uprising of 1863-64; representative of the so-called "national school" in historiography; main works: The Northern Affair in the 16th and 17th Centuries (vols. 1-3 1904-05), History of the Commonwealth and Civilization (vols. 1-4 1913-18), The United States of America. Creation of the State and Constitution (1929), History of Poland at the time of the January Uprising and the Polish Cause in the Years 1864-1914, in Poland, Its History and Culture (vol. 3 1930); author of history textbooks for schools (including Modern History 1918, 3rd ed. 1923).