Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Roots of Nationalism in the Polish Village; Part I. Politics in the Postemancipation Galician Village; 1. Emancipation and Its Discontents; 2. The Roots of Peasant Civil Society: Premodern Politics in the Galician Village; 3. Customs in Conflict: Peasant Politics in the Viennese Reichstag and the Galician Sejm ; 4. Making Government Work: The Village Commune as a School for Political Action; Part II. The Construction of a Peasant Pole; 5. The Peasant as Literary and Ethnographic Trope
6. The Gentry Construction of Peasants: Agricultural Circles and the Resurgence of Peasant Culture 7. Education and the Shaping of a Village Elite; 8. The Nation in the Village: Competing Images of Poland in Popular Culture; 9. The Village in the Nation: Polish Peasants as a Political Force; Conclusion: The Main Currents of Peasant Nationalism; Bibliography; Index
Notes
"First printing, Cornell paperbacks, 2004"--Title page verso
Originally published: 2001
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index