352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the closing years of the 18th century, the old Polish state paid the price of over 100 years of ungovernability in political extinction. Between 1772 and 1795 an area of Eastern Europe larger than France was divided among Russia, Prussia and Austria. At the very time that monarchial absolutism seemed to be collapsing in Western Europe, the dismemberment of the Polish "noble democracy" affirmed... Read more
Part I: The structures of the unreformed Commonwealth; 1: A ruling nation: the szlachta; 2: The szlachta economy; 3: Peasants; 4: Townsmen; 5: Institutions; Part II: Continuity and change; 6: The Wettins, 1: Augustus II (1697–1733); 7: The Wettins, 2: Augustus III, 1733–63; 8: Stanis?aw August Poniatowski: to 1788; 9: Progress and problems: the Polish Enlightenment; 10: Reform, reaction and revolt
Biography
Jerzy Tadeusz Lukavski
