Nathaniel Wood is an associate professor of history at the University of Kansas, where he teaches classes in modern European and East Central European history, urban history, and the cultural history of technology. He is the author of Becoming Metropolitan: Urban Selfhood and the Making of Modern Cracow (2010) and is presently working on a cultural history of bicycles, automobiles, and airplanes in the Polish lands before WWII.
Patrice Dabrowski’s new history, written with her usual elegant style, refers to Poland with the pronoun “she” – but the Soviet-imposed regime as “it,” notes Nathan Wood, perhaps with a touch of disapproval. Now there’s a great discussion starter.
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