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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1979

Author
  
Norman Davies

Publisher
  
Columbia University Press

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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1979

Genre
  
History

Subject
  
History of Poland

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Norman Davies books, Central Europe books

God's Playground is a book written in 1979 by Norman Davies, covering the history of Poland.

Contents

Davies was inspired to the title by Jan Kochanowski's 1580s Boże igrzysko (Mankind: Bauble of the Gods).

The book (or two, as many editions are split into two volumes) has received good reviews in international press and is considered by many historians and other scholars to be one of the best English-language books on the subject of history of Poland. The author received several Polish honours.

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Editions

English:
  • Columbia University Press, 1979
  • Oxford University Press, 1981, ISBN 0-19-822555-5 (vol. 1), ISBN 0-19-822592-X (vol. 2)
  • Columbia University Press, 1982, ISBN 0-231-05350-9 (vol. 1) and ISBN 0-231-05352-5 (vol. 2)
  • Columbia University Press, 1983
  • Oxford University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-19-821944-X (vol. 2)
  • Columbia University Press, 1984, ISBN 0-231-05351-7 (vol.1), ISBN 0-231-05353-3 (vol. 2)
  • Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-925339-0 (vol. 1) and ISBN 0-19-925340-4 (vol. 2)
  • Columbia University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-231-12817-7 (vol. 1), ISBN 0-231-12819-3 (vol. 2)
    • Polish:
  • bibuła edition in the 1980s
  • ZNAK 1989, ISBN 83-7006-052-8
  • ZNAK 1994, ISBN 83-7006-331-4
  • ZNAK 1999
  • ZNAK 2006, ISBN 83-240-0654-0

    • References

    God's Playground Wikipedia
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