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Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxviii + 588; illus. ISBN 978 90 04 21247 3, $221.00).

Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries (Leiden:... BOOK REVIEWS Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxviii + 588; illus. ISBN 978 90 04 21247 3, $221.00). DOI: 10.3366/jshs.2013.0065 The complexity of the historiography of Scottish migration to the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania is indicated by the linguistic skills demanded of scholars working in the field. As Almut Hillebrand has shown, an early interest can be detected in the German-speaking world, at the very moment at which the Commonwealth was being partitioned out of existence (and, simultaneously, the Scottish ethnic community that had existed there since the fourteenth century was going into eclipse). More recently, Polish and, to a lesser extent, English-language publications have comprised the majority of contributions to the field. We are lucky, in Peter Paul Bajer's book, to have a monograph that advances towards collecting together in one place this historiographical yield and which, in addition, offers several new and even unexpected leads. Given the 1795­1918 history of the same geographical space, it would be ludicrous to ignore the importance of the German perspective. During the course of a century from the third partition of the Commonwealth, a handful of scholars emerged from within http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Scottish Historical Studies Edinburgh University Press

Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxviii + 588; illus. ISBN 978 90 04 21247 3, $221.00).

Journal of Scottish Historical Studies , Volume 33 (1): 129 – May 1, 2013

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Edinburgh University Press
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Edinburgh University Press 2013
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Book Reviews; Historical Studies
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1748-538X
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1755-1749
DOI
10.3366/jshs.2013.0065
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BOOK REVIEWS Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxviii + 588; illus. ISBN 978 90 04 21247 3, $221.00). DOI: 10.3366/jshs.2013.0065 The complexity of the historiography of Scottish migration to the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania is indicated by the linguistic skills demanded of scholars working in the field. As Almut Hillebrand has shown, an early interest can be detected in the German-speaking world, at the very moment at which the Commonwealth was being partitioned out of existence (and, simultaneously, the Scottish ethnic community that had existed there since the fourteenth century was going into eclipse). More recently, Polish and, to a lesser extent, English-language publications have comprised the majority of contributions to the field. We are lucky, in Peter Paul Bajer's book, to have a monograph that advances towards collecting together in one place this historiographical yield and which, in addition, offers several new and even unexpected leads. Given the 1795­1918 history of the same geographical space, it would be ludicrous to ignore the importance of the German perspective. During the course of a century from the third partition of the Commonwealth, a handful of scholars emerged from within

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Journal of Scottish Historical StudiesEdinburgh University Press

Published: May 1, 2013

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