From Citizens to Subjects [[electronic resource] ] : City, State, and the Enlightenment in Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus / / Curtis G. Murphy

• Autore: Murphy Curtis G.
• Pubblicazione: Pittsburgh, Pa., : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xxii, 320 pages).)
• Soggetto topico: Enlightenment - Belarus; Enlightenment - Ukraine; Enlightenment - Poland; Federal-city relations - Belarus - History; Federal-city relations - Ukraine - History; Federal-city relations - Poland - History
• Soggetto geografico: Belarus Politics and government; Ukraine Politics and government; Poland Politics and government
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-310) and index
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : 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 Radziwiłł 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: From 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: From Citizens to Subjects
• ISBN: 0-8229-8604-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910793190103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Series in Russian and East European studies.