Liberty’s folly: the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth in the eighteenth century, 1697-1795
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Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
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Knyga / Book
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Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Liberty’s folly: the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth in the eighteenth century, 1697-1795
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Publication Data:
London ; Routledge, 2005.
Pages:
xvii, 316 p
Contents:
I. The structures of the unreformed Commonwealth — Eighteenth-century Poland: an introduction — 1. A ruling nation: the szlachta. Golden Freedom. The szlachtaʼs wealth. Coping with equality. Lifestyles, education, ennoblement. Ideology: Sarmatia. Internal tensions — 2. The szlachta economy. The latifundium. Lesser nobles and their properties — 3. Peasants. Peasant land and service. The peasant as cash rent payer. Rents and colonisation. The peasant and seigneurial monopolies. Freedom and unfreedom. The peasant condition. An unproductive agriculture. The village community and seigneurial authority. Peasant revolt. The problem of serfdom — 4. Townsmen. The character of Polish towns. Success stories. Self-inflicted problems. Municipal administration. Jurydyki. The Jews. The hegemony of noble culture. The szlachta in the towns — 5. Institutions. The monarchy. The Sejm. The sejmiki. The judiciary. Office and administration. Finances and the army. The Catholic Church. The institutional contribution — II. Continuity and change — 6. The Wettins, 1: Augustus II, 1697–1733. Frederick Augustus I of Saxony: Augustus II of Poland. Early suspicions. Poland and the Great Northern War. The effects of the Great Northern War on Poland. The later reign of Augustus II— 7. The Wettins, 2: Augustus III, 1733–1763. Leszczynski again. Augustus III, Poland and Europe. Party politics. Empty efforts. Poland and the Seven Years War. Coming to Reason — 8. Stanislaw August Poniatowski: to 1788. Early hopes and disappointments. Chaos and Partition. The Partition Settlement, 1772–1776. The Proconsulate — 9. Progress and problems: the Polish Enlightenment. A changing cultural background. Education. Problems and solutions. Reception — 10. Reform, reaction and revolt. The Four Years Sejm. The Third of May. Targowica and Grodno. Kościuszko Rising — Eighteenth-century Poland: a valedictory essay — Notes — Chronological table — Glossary of select Polish terms — Bibliography — Index.
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0415032288
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