The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-1795 : light and flame /

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Author / Creator:Butterwick-Pawlikowski, Richard, 1968- author.
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Description:xxiii, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) , maps ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12523533
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ISBN:9780300252200
030025220X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: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.

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