This book surveys Poland’s move from being a post-feudal, backward, peripheral country to being a modern, capitalist …, European state: from the partition of the commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania to the abolishment of ‘second serfdom’; late … ‘Solidarność’ movement to accession into the European Union. Could Poland really be considered an ‘underdeveloped’ nation …

, and, most specifically, Poland. It will be of interest to policy makers, card and payments industry practitioners …