LEADER 04312oam 22005894a 450 001 9910793190103321 005 20230120070608.0 010 $a0-8229-8604-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000005472199 035 $a(OCoLC)1046646854 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse66753 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4623031 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC28527728 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005472199 100 $a20180726d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFrom Citizens to Subjects$b[electronic resource] $eCity, State, and the Enlightenment in Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus /$fCurtis G. Murphy 210 $aPittsburgh, Pa. $cUniversity of Pittsburgh Press$d[2018] 215 $a1 online resource (1 PDF (xxii, 320 pages).) 225 1 $aPitt series in Russian and East European studies 311 $a0-8229-6462-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [287]-310) and index 327 $aIntroduction : progress or backwardness? Enlightened centralism versus civic republicanism in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -- We built this city on Magdeburg Law : cities and citizens in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before the first partition -- If only our commission had more power : enlightened centralism and the royal cities after the first partition -- Weaponizing good order : urban politics and civic republicanism in the era of constitutional reform and partition, 1788-1809 -- Enlightened profit-seeking : the private towns of the Zamoyski and Radziwi?? estates in the eighteenth century -- The apogee of enlightened centralism : town and state in the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic period -- The persistence of the old Commonwealth : cities, nobles, and the state in the western provinces of the Russian Empire -- Conclusion : emancipating citizens into subjects. 330 $aFrom Citizens to Subjects challenges the common assertion in historiography that Enlightenment-era centralization and rationalization brought progress and prosperity to all European states, arguing instead that centralization failed to improve the socioeconomic position of urban residents in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over a hundred-year period. Murphy examines the government of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the several imperial administrations that replaced it after the Partitions, comparing and contrasting their relationships with local citizenry, minority communities, and nobles who enjoyed considerable autonomy in their management of the cities of present-day Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus. He shows how the failure of Enlightenment-era reform was a direct result of the inherent defects in the reformers' visions, rather than from sabotage by shortsighted local residents. Reform in Poland-Lithuania effectively destroyed the existing system of complexities and imprecisions that had allowed certain towns to flourish, while also fostering a culture of self-government and civic republicanism among city citizens of all ranks and religions. By the mid-nineteenth century, the increasingly immobile post-Enlightenment state had transformed activist citizens into largely powerless subjects without conferring the promised material and economic benefits of centralization. 410 0$aSeries in Russian and East European studies. 606 $aEnlightenment$zBelarus 606 $aEnlightenment$zUkraine 606 $aEnlightenment$zPoland 606 $aFederal-city relations$zBelarus$xHistory 606 $aFederal-city relations$zUkraine$xHistory 606 $aFederal-city relations$zPoland$xHistory 607 $aBelarus Politics and government 607 $aUkraine$xPolitics and government 607 $aPoland$xPolitics and government 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnlightenment 615 0$aEnlightenment 615 0$aEnlightenment 615 0$aFederal-city relations$xHistory. 615 0$aFederal-city relations$xHistory. 615 0$aFederal-city relations$xHistory. 700 $aMurphy$b Curtis G.$01513909 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793190103321 996 $aFrom Citizens to Subjects$93748636 997 $aUNINA