Davis, Norman

He studied at the College of St. Magdalen at Oxford , then at the graduate school of the Jagiellonian University , where he studied the Soviet-Polish war . From 1971 he taught Polish history at the University of London . In 1981, his book “The Playground ” (God Play) was published on the history of Poland, and in 1984, the book Heart of Europe (the Heart of Europe) on the role of Polish history in its present.

Some historians blamed Davis, who received Polish citizenship in 2014, for “polonofilstvo” when describing the Polish-German, Polish-Russian and Polish-Jewish conflicts. He was particularly sharply criticized by Jewish historians Lucy Davidovich and Abraham Blumberg. Presumably, this was one of the reasons why Davis in 1986 was denied a permanent professorship at Stanford University . Davis sued for breach of contract, but the court decided that he had no jurisdiction to resolve academic disputes.

In the 1990s, Davis wrote two large books “ Europe ” (1996) - a general description of the history of Europe, in which Davis tried to give equal attention to all parts of Europe, in particular the Slavic countries. In 1999, the book “ The Isles ” about the history of the British Isles was published.

European Academy (2013) is marked.

• 1972 : White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War, 1919-20 . (2004 edition: ISBN 0-7126-0694-7 )
• 1977 : Poland, Past and Present. A Select Bibliography of Works in English . ISBN 0-89250-011-5
• 1981 : God's Playground. A History of Poland. Vol. 1: The Origins to 1795 , Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present . Oxford: Oxford University Press . ISBN 0-19-925339-0 / ISBN 0-19-925340-4 .
• 1984 : Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-285152-7 .
  • 2001 : Present at Oxford University Press , USA; New edition ISBN 0-19-280126-0
  • 2009 : The Heart of Europe: trans. Nikolay Yartsev, Olga Nitopchuk "Summer Garden" Publishing House , Moscow; Jan Novák Collegium of Eastern Europe, Wroclaw ISBN 978-5-98856-058-6
• 1991 : Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939-46. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-06200-1
• 1996 : Europe: A History . Oxford: Oxford University Press . ISBN 0-19-820171-0
  • The history of Europe. - M .: AST, Transit, 2004. - 944 p. ISBN 5-17-024749-4 , 5-9578-1011-8
• 1997 Auschwitz International Conference on the Jagiellonian University . Universitas. ISBN 83-7052-935-6
• 1999 : Red Winds from the North . Able Publishing. ISBN 0-907616-45-3
• 1999 : The Isles. A History . Oxford: Oxford University Press . ISBN 0-19-513442-7
• 2002 (with Roger Moorhouse): Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-06243-3
  • 2013 : Davis N., Moorhouse R. Microcosm: History of the Central European City. / Per. from English - M .: Summer Garden, 2013. - 720 pp.: Ill. - ISBN 978-5-98856-184-2
• 2004 : Rising '44. The Battle for Warsaw. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0-333-90568-7
• 2006 : Europe East and West: A Collection of Essays on European History . Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-06924-1
• 2006 : Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory . Macmillan ISBN 0-333-69285-3
• 2011 : Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe . Allen lane ISBN 978-1-84614-338-0

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