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Autore |
Lukowski Jerzy |
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Titolo |
Disorderly liberty [[electronic resource] ] : the political culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the eighteenth century / / Jerzy Lukowski |
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London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-77092-6 |
9786612770920 |
1-4411-4580-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Collana |
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Continuum studies in Central and East European history |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Lithuania Politics and government 18th century |
Poland Politics and government 18th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-327) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; A note on Polish pronunciation; 1 The Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania: an introductory survey; 2 Ancestral legacies; 3 The search for harmony; 4 Keeping the faith; 5 Towards successful counsels; 6 Confrontations with the Enlightenment: Felix Czacki and the Monitor, 1765, and the Zamoyski law code, 1780; 7 Foreign aid; 8 Marking time; 9 Ferment; 10 Judaica; 11 Towards new Utopias; Epilogue; Appendix: The Constitution of 3 May 1791; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 acce |
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