Аннотация:At the beginning of The Nation in the Village, Keely Stauter-Halsted states that she will explore "the transition from serf to citizen in the Polish lands by examining the formation of a peasant national identity (or identities) between emancipation in 1848 and the outbreak of the Great War" (p.3).The narrative that follows is insightful and innovative in its approach to a complex topic that has received far less attention than it deserves.While nationalism studies have produced a cornucopia of theories, relatively few have delved into the murky processes of peasant identification with "the nation".An early exception is the pathbreaking work of Eugene Weber on the transformation of the French peasantry into Frenchmen.[1] Long an inspiration to historians of the peasantry, students of village life in Eastern Europe and Russia only recently have begun to produce comparable works.Stauter-Halsted's book is a fine example that draws on a dazzling array of printed and archival sources to reveal what peasants themselves were saying, writing, thinking,
