The political mobilization in the West of Great Poland before the January uprising and their image in German historiography

Abstrakt

The article analyses the political mobilization of the Polish and German population in the county of Birnbaum (Międzychód) in the province of Poznania between the revolution of 1848/49 and the Polish January Uprising 1863. It shows the enormous potential for mobilization of both ethnic groups in the context of the revolutionary events and analyses the composition of the leading groups

Klíčová slova

• mobilization, political history
• revolution 1848/49
• elites
• civil society
• Poles
• Germans
• Poland
• Germany
• Poznania
• Great Poland