Antoni Mączak

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Antoni Mączak (30 March 1928 - 6 March 2003) was a Polish historian specializing in economic, political and social history of Poland and history of Europe.

1 Biography
2 Works
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Biography

Antoni Maczak was born to Lwów in 1928. During the Second World War he fought in the Boy Scouts units of the Polish resistance against the Nazis and in the ranks of Home Army took part in the Warsaw Uprising (August-October 1944). Captured, he remained a prisoner until Germans surrendered in 1945. After to have got the bachelor, masters and eventually the doctorate at the University of Warsaw. In 1981 he achieved the rank of professor. From 1981 to 1987 he has been director of the History Institute of the University of Warsaw.

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Antoni Maczak has written much about economic history of Poland and on comparative history of Poland and Europe. He also wrote on the systems of authority in Europe, especially between the 15th and 18th centuries, and on the clientelism in history. His 1980s book Governing and governed (Rządzący i Rządzeni) was considered one of the most important historical texts in contemporary Poland, breaking with the past Marxist look on history that until than dominated in historiography in the People's Republic of Poland. In the English speaking world he is best known for his Travel in Early Modern Europe (Życie codzienne w podróżach po Europie XVI–XVII wieku).