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Author : Jerzy Lukowski
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441145802
The first detailed study of the history of Poland and its political development during the 18th century.
Author : Richard Butterwick
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300252200
A major new assessment of the "vanished kingdom" of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth--one which recognizes its achievements before its destruction Richard Butterwick tells the compelling story of the last decades of one of Europe's largest and least understood polities: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Drawing on the latest research, Butterwick vividly portrays the turbulence the Commonwealth experienced. Far from seeing it as a failed state, he shows the ways in which it overcame the stranglehold of Russia and briefly regained its sovereignty, the crowning success of which took place on 3 May 1791--the passing of the first Constitution of modern Europe.
Author : Andrzej Chwalba,Krzysztof Zamorski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000203998
This volume provides a fresh perspective of the history and legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the often-disputed memory of it in contemporary Europe. The unions between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania have fascinated many readers particularly because many solutions that have been implemented in the European Union have been adopted from its Central and Eastern European predecessor. The collection of essays presented in this volume are divided into three parts – the Beginnings of Poland-Lithuania, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Legacy and Memory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – and represent a selection of the papers delivered at the Third Congress of International Researchers of Polish History which was held in Cracow on 11-14 October 2017. Through their application of different historiographical perspectives and schools of history they offer the reader a fresh take on the Commonwealth’s history and legacy, as well as the memory of it in the countries that are its inheritors, namely Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine. An exploration of one of the biggest countries in Early Modern Europe, this will be of interest to historians, political scientists, cultural anthropologists and other scholars of the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern period.
Author : Christopher Hartwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107112018
This book compares the economic outcomes of Poland and Ukraine by focusing on political and economic institutions.
Author : Richard Butterwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199250332
The Polish Revolution cast off the Russian hegemony that had kept the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth impotent for most of the eighteenth century. Before being overthrown by the armies of Catherine the Great, the Four Years' Parliament of 1788-92 passed wide-ranging reforms, culminating in Europe's first written constitution on 3 May 1791. In some respects its policies towards the Catholic Church of both rites (Latin and Ruthenian) were more radical than those of Joseph II, and comparable to some of those adopted in the early stages of the French Revolution. Policies included taxation of the Catholic clergy at more than double the rate of the lay nobility, the confiscation of episcopal estates, the equalization of dioceses, and controversial concessions to Orthodoxy. But the monastic clergy escaped almost unscathed. A method of explaining political decisions in a republican polity is developed in order to show how and why the Commonwealth went to the verge of schism with Rome in 1789-90, before drawing back. Pope Pius VI could then bless the 'mild revolution' of 3 May 1791, which Poland's clergy and monarch presented to the nobility as a miracle of Divine Providence. The stresses would be eclipsed by dechristianization in France, the dismemberment of the Commonwealth, and subsequent incarnations of unity between the Catholic Church and the Polish nation. Probing both 'high politics' and political culture', Richard Butterwick draws on diplomatic and political correspondence, speeches, pamphlets, sermons, pastoral letters, proclamations, records of local assemblies, and other sources to explore a volatile relationship between altar, throne, and nobility at the end of Europe's Ancien Régime.
Author : Quentin Skinner,Martin van Gelderen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107311411
Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 2 considers free persons and free states, examining differing views about freedom of thought and action and their relations to conceptions of citizenship. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.
Author : Matthew P. Romaniello,Charles Lipp
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1409405516
European nobility faced a number of religious, political and military challenges. Many sought to increase their status, or maintain their privileges, by negotiating with various political and religious authorities, and exploiting opportunities in this era of upheaval. In examining the protective strategies nobles adopted in an age of state-building, reformation and expansion, this collection reveals the roles of the 'second order' and their ability to survive. Scholars across disciplinary and national boundaries offer exciting new perspectives on this central social group.
Author : Adam Teller
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804799874
It has often been claimed that Jews have a penchant for capitalism and capitalist economic activity. With this book, Adam Teller challenges that assumption. Examining how Jews achieved their extraordinary success within the late feudal economy of the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, he shows that economic success did not necessarily come through any innate entrepreneurial skills, but through identifying and exploiting economic niches in the pre-modern economy—in particular, the monopoly on the sale of grain alcohol. Jewish economic activity was a key factor in the development of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and it greatly enhanced the incomes, and thereby the social and political status, of the noble magnates, including the powerful Radziwiłł family. In turn, with the magnate's backing, Jews were able to leverage their own economic success into high status in estate society. Over time, relations within Jewish society began to change, putting less value on learning and pedigree and more on wealth and connections with the estate owners. This groundbreaking book exemplifies how the study of Jewish economic history can shed light on a crucial mechanism of Jewish social integration. In the Polish-Lithuanian setting, Jews were simultaneously a despised religious minority and key economic players, with a consequent standing that few could afford to ignore.
Author : Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000197082
This book makes a contribution to ongoing European research into the political discourse of the early modern era, analyzing the political discourse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795). The sources comprise the broadly understood political literature from the end of the sixteenth century until the end of the eighteenth century. The author has selected and analysed concepts and ideas that are particularly important for the noble political discourse, with the aim of understanding what these concepts meant for the participants in public debate, who used them, how they explained and described the world, how they allowed for the formulation of political postulates and ideals, whether their meaning changed over time, and if so, then to what extent and under what influences. The author’s research focuses not only on the understanding of the concepts that functioned in the period under study but also on their use as instruments in the political struggle. The book is addressed to readers from the academic milieu – students and researchers – but is likewise accessible to less prepared readers interested in the history of political language and concepts as well as the history of political thought.
Author : Quentin Skinner,Martin van Gelderen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107033061
Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions between free will and divine omnipotence across a continent of proliferating religious denominations. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.
Author : Felicia Roşu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198789376
This book is an examination of why and how the elective principle, already established in Transylvanian and Polish political culture in the late medieval period, was transformed in the early elections of the 1570s. In this period, the two polities adopted constitutional arrangements different in depth and scope but based on the same fundamental principles: elective thrones, state-sanctioned religious pluralism, and constitutional guarantees for the right of disobedience. There were important variations in their regulation and application, but Transylvania and the newly created Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had one essential thing in common: they were the only two polities in early modern Europe whose political systems secured the succession of their rulers through large-scale elections in which the dynastic principle, although still important, was not binding.
Author : Henry Arthur Tilley
Publisher : London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Greece
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018768309
Author : Guizot (M., François)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Civilization
ISBN : HARVARD:32044026020453
Author : François Lenormant,Elisabeth Chevallier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : UVA:X000736273
Author : François Guizot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Europe
ISBN : PRNC:32101076208337