Bibliographic record
Abstract
Alex Storozynski. The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and Age of Revolution. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009. xiv, 370 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $29.95, cloth. $16.99, paper.Tadeusz Kosciuszko is among foremost figures of United States' War for Independence as well as of Polish radical Enlightenment, Leader (Naczelnik) of 1794 Insurrection, and a moral guide for Poles. Yet there has been no recent biography in English that explores numerous facets of this complex individual or impact he made on two nations. Alex Storozynski is current president and executive director of Kosciuszko Foundation and formerly connected to two New York City tabloids. Unfortunately, despite author's knowledge of English and Polish and his profession as a writer, this book does not provide a professional treatment of Kosciuszko' s life, achievements, and legacy.Of course, Storozynski faithfully recites key elements of Leader's life, adding frequent references to sex (or its lack in Kosciuszko' s case), but he has no framework for his narrative, only chronological episodes. There are signs of what could become such a framework - Leader's republicanism and radical Enlightenment beliefs - but these important features surface in text as additional detail rather than shapers of Kosciuszko' s life and thought. For example, Kosciuszko' s deism is clear; but Storozynski can only bear to write that Leader began to think more and more like a Deist (p. 126). Kosciuszko' s deism, anti-clericalism, and disdain for Roman Catholicism have long been difficult for certain elements in Polish politics. It seems that Storozynski shares this difficulty. Storozynski inserts his own political views again when he denounces headaches of a national (p. 180). Most historians would identify lack of an effective administration and a bureaucracy to staff it as one of reasons for Commonwealth's disappearance.In his introduction, author claims a deep familiarity with Polish history, but there are numerous faux pas: few would attribute Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's decline simply to foreign meddling in legislative affairs (p. 3) and Hasidim never dominated Jewish society in Poland (p. 138). Storozynski bizarrely assumes that if Poland's townspeople were given equal rights with Polish nobility, the Prussian middle class would have no reason to stay in Prussia (p. 135). There are no cold steppes between Warsaw and St Petersburg (p. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".