Humanities and Social Studies
ISSN 2081-2493

The initiators of the creation of “Humanities and Social Studies” were research workers and academic teachers of the Kielce Higher Pedagogical School further transformed into the Jan Kochanowski Świetokrzyska Academy. From 1992 till 1996 the first three volumes of the magazine, whose title was then “Kielce Social Studies” (Polish “Kieleckie Studia Społeczne”, ISSN 1230-5049), were issued. Following its resumption, the first and second volume – from 2005 and 2007, were published under the title “Humanities and Social Studies of the Świetokrzyska Academy” (Polish “Studia Humanistyczno-Społeczne Akademii Świętokrzyskiej”, ISSN 1734-4689). Starting from the third volume of 2009 the journal has been published under the current title “Humanities and Social Studies” (Polish “Studia Humanistyczno-Społeczne”, ISSN 2081-2493). The name is often abbreviated to “SHS”.

As far as the substantive approach is concerned the journal is a periodical devoted to history, political science, security, international relations, administration and law, including in particular the history of administration and law and constitutional law. Apart from essays, also source materials, reviews and reports are published in the magazine.

“Humanities and Social Studies” is issued in print by the University Press the Jan Kochanowski in Kielce (Polish: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach). Until 2013, the journal was issued annually.  Since 2014 it has been issued as a biennial. Starting from 2016 the journal will be a quarterly.

We invite historians, political scientists and lawyers to submit their papers to be published in the subsequent volumes of “Humanities and Social Studies”.

Happy Reading!

Radosław Kubicki

Wojciech Saletra

Radosław Kubicki, Wojciech Saletra (The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland)

Introduction

HISTORY

Rafał Kowalczyk (The University of Łódź, Poland)

Economical Policy of Prussia in “Polish” Districts in the Years 1772-1806

Karolina Święcich (The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland)

Health and Hygiene in Pińczów District in the Interwar Period

Szymon Szarek (Kielce, Poland)

Political Tendencies in the Kielce Region Fire Services in the Interwar Period

Bruno Marek Wojtasik (The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland)

Construction of the Church as a Manifestation of Social Initiatives in the Final Stage of the Polish Peoples Republic (PRL) (1983-1989) – Using the Example of the Diocese of Kielce

POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY, SAFETY

AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Krzysztof Kubiak (The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland)

The Armed Forces of the Nordic Countries. Historical Experience and Present Times

Łukasz Iwasiński (The University of Warsaw, Poland)

Contemporary References to the Work of Thorstein Veblen

Самир Саттаров (The Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences in Baku, Azerbaijan)

Cultural Borderland in Azerbaijan

Jadwiga Sztaba (The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland)

Regional Development Tendencies Based on Examples of the Nord Pas De Calais Region and Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship

Monika Grabowska (The Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland)

Phenomenon of the Reversed Principle of Subsidiarity

SOURCE MATERIALS

Radosław Kubicki (The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland)

Programme and Electoral Papers of the Polish Peasant Party with the European Parliament Elections in 2014

REVIEWS

Lucyna Wiśniewska-Rutkowska (The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland)

Adam Zamojski, A History of a Remarkable Nation 966-2008, translated by Michał Ronikier, Cracow: Literary Press, 2011, pp. 585

Radosław Kubicki (The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland)

Members of the Regional Councils. The Roles and Their Contexts, ed. Ewa Nalewajko, Warsaw: The Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2011, pp.183

Joanna Grzela (The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland)

Ryszard M. Czarny, High North – Geography or Politics, Kielce-Trnava: The Jan Kochanowski University, 2014, pp. 390

REPORTS

Tomasz Pawłuszko (The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland)

Conference Report: The Arctic and Nordic Countries in the World of Economy and Politics, Kielce, The Jan Kochanowski University, 15^th May 2014

Radosław Kubicki (The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland)

Conference Report: Modern Local Government in the Historical Perspective of Local and Regional Administration, Kielce, The Jan Kochanowski University, 27^th May 2015

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