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How Multicultural Was A Multiethnic Commonwealth? - Ed. Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis. Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives. Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. xii, 383 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $50.00, hard bound. - Tomasz Grusiecki. Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania. Rethinking Art's Histories. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. xviii, 242 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. £85.00, hard bound.
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Ed. Stanley Bill and Simon Lewis. Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives. Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. xii, 383 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $50.00, hard bound.
Tomasz Grusiecki. Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania. Rethinking Art's Histories. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. xviii, 242 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. £85.00, hard bound.
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2 Friedrich, Karin and Pendzich, Barbara M., eds., Citizenship and Identity in Multinational Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania in Context, 1550–1772 (Leiden, Netherlands, 2009), xviCrossRefGoogle Scholar.
3 “Thing” is a technical term: “When objects and artefacts make a real impact on entire nations and peoples, they are better described as ‘things’: material forms with the capacity to act upon the world. . . . To engage with materiality is thus to participate in what Martin Heidegger calls ‘thinging’: a process of moving beyond cerebral reference . . . that defies language and buries itself in the world of lived experience” (Grusiecki, 14), quoting Heidegger, Martin, ‘The Thing’ in Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Hofstadter, Albert (New York, 1971), 161–83Google Scholar.
4 This chapter in slightly different form also appears in Multicultural Commonwealth.
5 See Micgiel, John S., Scott, Robert, and Segal, Harold B., eds, Proceedings of the Conferences on Poles and Jews: Myth and Reality in Historical Context (New York, 1986), 16–31Google Scholar.