03181nam 2200661 a 450 991045886010332120200520144314.01-282-77092-697866127709201-4411-4580-X(CKB)2560000000016839(EBL)587885(OCoLC)667290842(SSID)ssj0000416024(PQKBManifestationID)12163953(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000416024(PQKBWorkID)10418343(PQKB)10618373(SSID)ssj0001132022(PQKBManifestationID)12519958(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132022(PQKBWorkID)11149188(PQKB)11231246(MiAaPQ)EBC587885(Au-PeEL)EBL587885(CaPaEBR)ebr10420272(CaONFJC)MIL277092(OCoLC)893334913(EXLCZ)99256000000001683920100730d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDisorderly liberty[electronic resource] the political culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the eighteenth century /Jerzy LukowskiLondon ;New York Continuum20101 online resource (368 p.)Continuum studies in Central and East European historyDescription based upon print version of record.1-4411-5138-9 1-4411-4812-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-327) and index.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; IndexDuring 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 acceContinuum studies in Eastern European history.LithuaniaPolitics and government18th centuryPolandPolitics and government18th centuryElectronic books.943.802Lukowski Jerzy676635MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458860103321Disorderly liberty2240429UNINA