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The Three Kings
Author | : Thomas Haweis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2019-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780461257953 |
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The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania
Author | : Dariusz Kolodziejczyk |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1135 |
Release | : 2011-06-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9004191909 |
Drawing on rich source material in several languages and three scripts (Arabic, Cyrillic, and Latin), this book presents a broad picture of international relations in early modern Eastern Europe, at the crossing point of Genghisid, Islamic, Orthodox, and Latin traditions.
Goslicius' Ideal Senator and His Cultural Impact Over the Centuries
Author | : Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Political ethics |
ISBN | : |
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-1795
Author | : Richard Butterwick |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030025220X |
A major new assessment of the "vanished kingdom" of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth--one which recognizes its achievements before its destruction Richard Butterwick tells the compelling story of the last decades of one of Europe's largest and least understood polities: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Drawing on the latest research, Butterwick vividly portrays the turbulence the Commonwealth experienced. Far from seeing it as a failed state, he shows the ways in which it overcame the stranglehold of Russia and briefly regained its sovereignty, the crowning success of which took place on 3 May 1791--the passing of the first Constitution of modern Europe.
Europe 1450 to 1789
Author | : Jonathan Dewald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780684312002 |
The Court Jew
Author | : Selma Stern |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781412836364 |
The period of court absolutism and early capitalism extended from the end of the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. A new world view was created, along with a new type of individual possessing new economic orientations to the marketplace and new social attitudes deriving from such concerns. The unified political and religious world of medieval Europe broke into parts: national differentiation and religious options abounded. The autonomy of the nation-state created a need for new attitudes toward religious minorities, even despised ones such as the Jews. The court Jew phenomenon, as Selma Stern details, was inextricably linked to these larger developments, including the emancipation of Jews as a whole. Dr. Stern's work is an effort to reconstruct this unusual group of Jews who became politically and economically influential and through that mechanism were able to enhance Jewish community life as a whole. In his very existence the court Jew necessarily enlarged, beyond its original meaning, the concept of free expression in European societies. As the dominating idea of defending one church and one emperor collapsed under the weight of the new European system of power balances, a new conception of the Jew developed, one of a transforming agent in economic and political positions. With trade no longer condemned as sinful, collecting interest for loans no longer prohibited, and the merchant no longe'r compared to a thief, the Jewish money changer and tradesman came to be viewed in a more favorable light. In this new environment, the claims of Christianity remained supreme, but the rights of religious minorities were considered. At the time of the book's initial appearance, the Saturday Review hailed it as a "picturesque work giving evidence of great writing talent." The reviewer went on to note that "Dr. Stern's work provided exhaustive historical background of European Jewryâfrom 1650 to 1750âthat period during which the modern European genius emerged." Dr. Stern's work relies heavily upon European archives up to 1938, when the advances of Nazism made further work impossible. As a result, what was started in Europe was completed in America.
The Last King Of Poland
Author | : Adam Zamoyski |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2020-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474615201 |
A superb study of one of the most important, romantic and dynamic figures of European history. 'A fine book ... the web of political intrigue unfolds like an appetising detective novel' Scotsman The last king of Poland owed his throne largely to his youthful romance with the future Catherine the Great of Russia. But Stanislaw Augustus was nobody's pawn. He was an ambitious, highly intelligent and complex character, a dashing figure in the finest eighteenth-century tradition. A great believer in art and education, he spent fortunes on cultural projects, and finding that he was blocked politically by Catherine, he put his energies into a programme of social and artistic regeneration. He transformed the mood of his country and brought it to a new phase of reform and independence. Poland's neighbours, however, viewed this beacon of liberty in their midst with alarm, and as they invaded and partitioned it, Stanislaw saw the destruction of his life's work, and ultimately was forced to abdicate, a broken man, deceived and disillusioned.