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The Polish-Lithuanian monarchy in European context c. 1500-1795
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The Polish-Lithuanian monarchy in European context c. 1500-1795

Author: Richard Butterwick
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is often considered an "aberration" where monarchy was reduced by the nobility to impotence, and which was consequently partitioned. This text assesses the  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Butterwick
ISBN: 0333773829 9780333773826
OCLC Number: 45655104
Description: xix, 249 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in International Context / R. J. W. Evans --
The Development of Monarchies in Western Europe, c. 1500-1800 / Ian Green --
The Formation of the Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in the Sixteenth Century / Almut Bues --
The Grand Dukes and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Sixteenth Century: Reflections on the Lithuanian Political Nation and the Union of Lublin / Jurate Kiaupiene --
Nobles, Burghers and the Monarchy in Poland-Lithuania: the Case of Royal Prussia, 1454-1772/93 / Karin Friedrich --
Polish Views on European Monarchies / Anna Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz --
The Szlachta and the Monarchy: Reflections on the Struggle inter maiestatem ac libertatem / Jerzy Lukowski --
Obsequious Disrespect: the Problem of Royal Power in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under the Vasas, 1587-1668 / Robert I. Frost --
The Functioning of the Monarchy during the Reigns of the Electors of Saxony, 1697-1763 / Mariusz Markiewicz --
The Enlightened Monarchy of Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764-1795) / Richard Butterwick.
Responsibility: edited by Richard Butterwick.
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