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In the collective memory of most European nations, the Napoleonic epoch is perceived as a period of ruinous wars, economic stagnation or humiliating foreign domination. The memory that has prevailed in Polish historical consciousness is a different one. This chapter explains the reasons for this specificity, which are deeply rooted in Poland’s political experience and cultural attitudes, and in the mentality of the Polish people throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Barbara Grochulska, ‘Uwagi o bilansie handlowym Ksiçstwa Warszawskiego’, Przeglqd Historyczny 51, (1960): 487–489.
Robert Bielecki, ‘L’effort militaire Polonais 1806–1815’, Revue de l’Institut Napoléon, vol. 132 (1976): 163–164.
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Czubaty, J. (2016). What Lies behind the Glory? A Balance Sheet of the Napoleonic Era in Poland. In: Planert, U. (eds) Napoleon’s Empire. War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137455475_12
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