Scotland and Poland: Historical Encounters, 1500-2010 - download pdf or read online

By Tom Devine,David Hesse

ISBN-10: 1906566275

ISBN-13: 9781906566272

This selection of essays explores greater than 5 centuries of Scottish-Polish interactions. It makes a speciality of the 2 major moments of touch: the early glossy reviews of Scottish pedlars, retailers, mercenaries and diplomats within the Polish-Lithuanian universal wealth and the Polish presence in Scotland throughout the 20th and early twenty-first century. The latter interval contains the Polish army presence in Scotland in the course of international battle II and the recent Polish migration to Scotland after Poland's accession to the eu Union in 2004. The ebook might be of curiosity to scholars and researchers who specialise in the growth topic of early glossy Scottish emigration to the eu continent, and likewise to extra common readers outdoors the scholarly group. will probably be of price to the Polish neighborhood in Scotland and to a person attracted to the joint background of those countries.

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