Disorderly Liberty

David A. Frick, Gabor Agoston, Howard Louthan, Karin Friedrich, Richard Butterwick, Robert I. Frost, Piotr Gorecki, Jerzy Lukowski, Gershon David Hundert, Elaine Fulton

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Altri dati

Formato:
Paperback
Editore:
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua:
Inglese
Pagine:
368
Dimensioni:
234 X 156
Codice EAN:
9781441151384
Generi:
History, Europe History, Modern History
Altre informazioni:
black & white illustrations
Prezzo di copertina:
$ 55,00

I contenuti

During the eighteenth century Europe's republics may have been an integral part of the international scene, but they were marginalised or in decline. When, in 1772, the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania suffered a massive loss of territory to its three more powerful neighbours, Russia, Prussia and Austria, Edmund Burke's question Poland was but a breakfast where will they dine?' was asked across the continent's lesser states, republics and non-republics alike. The slow, almost inevitable, process of Poland's digestion may have contributed to the relative ease with which that process was accepted in European chanceries. Poland was not a state which was a shaper of history, but was on the receiving end of the attentions of more dynamic neighbours. Yet it was, until the process of its disposal got under way, the largest state in Europe after Russia. Lukowski considers how the republican ideals and the political culture of its ruling class and nobility remain part of the historical legacy not only of what is today Poland, but also of the successor states: Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus.

Indice

Preface; Chapter 1. The Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania: an introductory survey; Chapter 2. Ancestral legacies; Chapter 3. Keeping the Faith; Chapter 4. The search for harmony; Chapter 5. Towards successful counsels; Chapter 6. Confrontations with the Enlightenment.; Chapter 7. Reality shock; Chapter 8. Foreign aid: Montesquieu, Rousseau and others; Chapter 9. Ferment; Chapter 10. Judaica; Chapter 11. New Utopias; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

L'Autore

Dr Jerzy Lukowski is Head of Department of Modern History at the University of Birmingham and an expert in Polish History, in particular the 18th Century.

Leggi la recensione

Disorderly Liberty is a major, original and lucidly written work of scholarship and it deserves the widest possible readership. -Slavonic and East European Review (vol. 89, no. 3)