Centrum – Peryferia – Naród. Uwarunkowania w Polsce i w Niemczech w XIX i na początku XX wieku

The Centre – Peripheries – Nation. Determinants in Poland and Germany in the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century

The monograph presents the strategy and the determinants of building national awareness in Poland and Germany concerning peripheries with regard to their perception by outer environments, which, in turn, adopt a new view constructed in central regions by periphery communities. It formulates a hypothesis that the image of peripheries, created in the socio-cultural discourse in central regions, displays national traits, which create a coherent and consistent image of the state, both from the Polish and German perspective.

Keywords: the influence of peripheries on the centre, building national awareness in Poland and Germany, central regions and peripheries, society in Poland and Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries, Podlachia (Podlasie) and Lower Lusatia (Dolne Łużyce)

Aleksandra Kmak-Pamirska – historian, religious scholar and Europeanist. Assistant professor at the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw.