Baltic Borderlands Studia Historica Gedanensia Tom XIII

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Studia Historica Gedanensia. Tom XIII. Baltic Borderlands

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego

Autor: red. Alexander Drost Anna Mazurkiewicz

Good Morning! Dzień dobry, Hello Brendan.

I am very pleased to be talking to you in Gdańsk today, but very sorry that I can’t be

with you in person. We live in strange times. The University of Gdańsk was the very first

to grant me an honorary doctorate, so I take special pleasure in re-connecting with you.

The link between the universities of Gdańsk and Cambridge also gives me much satis‑

faction. Since my country, the United Kingdom, has left the European Union – in my view,

foolishly – it is all the more important that British universities work and co-operate with

their European counterparts. And I hope that students and academics from Gdańsk will

maintain their contacts with friends in Britain.

In Oxford, where I live, Cambridge is known as “the other place” – to drugie

miejsce. In our local pub, the Rose and Crown, a so-called “swear box” is kept to hold

the money collected for verbal offences. Clients are required to pay a traditional fine a) for

speaking obscenities, or b) for mentioning the name of the “other place.” In Cambridge,

of course, Oxford is known as “the other, other place” – to drugie, drugie miejsce.

Fortunately, I have good relations with Cambridge as well as Oxford – being a member

of Peterhouse, Clare Hall and Pembroke colleges. And, in case you didn’t know, Britain has

130 universities. Among the youngest is the university of my home town, Bolton, founded

in 2004, which also awarded me an honorary doctorate and which specialises in vocational

and industry-related programmes and high-quality teaching, I hope that some of you,

someday will visit Bolton.

Today, instead of a stodgy academic lecture, I shall serve up a smorgasbord of personal

recollections and historical observations. I hope it doesn’t sound too self-indulgent.

Ze Wstępu

Contents

PREFACE

Norman Davies

The Baltic: a Tour d’Horizon . . . 7

INTRODUCTION

Alexander Drost

Gdańsk: A Baltic Borderland Perspective . .. 23

ARTICLES

Beata Możejko

Gdańsk as a Hanseatic City in the Late Middle Ages. Selected Aspects:

Symbolism, Ruling Elites, Maritime Contacts 39

Anna Sobecka

Art and Science in Early Modern Gdańsk 53

Hugo Bromley

Political Economy in the Baltic Borderlands: Commercial Interests

and the Anglo‑Russian Treaty of Commerce, 1766 . .  . 70

Arkadiusz Janicki

Russian Expansion in the Baltic in the 18th Century . .. 91

Brendan Simms, Thomas Peak

From Commerce to Violence: The Second Bombardment

of Copenhagen (1807) . . 110

Iwona Sakowicz‑Tebinka

Russia as an Expansionist Empire in the Opinions of the British Press

1855–1878 . . 121

Volha Barysenka

The Representation of Protestants in the Legends of Marian Images

in the Territories of the (Former) Grand Duchy of Lithuania .  135

Mirosław P. Kruk

Echoes of Iconoclasm in the Modern Polish‑Lithuanian Commonwealth 149

Rosalind P. Blakesley

Catherine the Great’s Danish Portraitist: Projecting Majesty across

the Baltic Sea . .. 162

Małgorzata Omilanowska

Gdańsk: Specificity of Its Architecture in the Modern Era. The Question

of National and Regional Identity . . .. 178

Donatas Kupčiūnas

The Prussians on the Thames? Reasons for British Resistance to Polish

Claims to Gdańsk after the Great War . .197

Marta Grzechnik

Gdynia 1920–1939: Poland’s Gateway to the World .  204

Krzysztof Ulanowski

Record of Violence. The Socio‑Political

German‑Jewish Relations in Free City of Danzig in the Years 1933–1939 .. 225

Jacek Tebinka

Gdańsk in British Diplomacy, 1945–1989 251

Jacek Kołtan

The Great Comeback of the Solidarity Idea in 1980. Polish Social Movement

and Late Modernity . .  265

Olha Zavadska

The Borders of the “Near Abroad”: the Russian War in Ukraine

and its Consequences for the Geopolitical System of Central and Eastern

Europe . . 278

SCIENTIFIC CHRONICLES

Borderland. Change and Continuity in the Face of Otherness

(Anna Mazurkiewicz) .. 297

BOOK REVIEWS

Iwona Janicka, Sina śmierć z Azji: epidemie cholery w północno‑zachodnich

guberniach Cesarstwa Rosyjskiego w XIX wieku (Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo

Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2021), pp. 847 (Aistis Žalnora)  … 303