That Noble Quest From True Nobility To Enlightened Society In The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth 1550 1830
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That Noble Quest From True Nobility To Enlightened Society In The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth 1550 1830
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Author : David Althoen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
That Noble Quest From True Nobility To Enlightened Society In The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth 1550 1830 written by David Althoen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Poland categories.
That Noble Quest
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Author : David M. Althoen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
That Noble Quest written by David M. Althoen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
That Noble Quest
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Author : David M. Althoen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
That Noble Quest written by David M. Althoen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth 1733 1795
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Author : Richard Butterwick
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-05
The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth 1733 1795 written by Richard Butterwick and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-05 with History categories.
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.
The Origins Of The Slavic Nations
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Author : Serhii Plokhy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-09-07
The Origins Of The Slavic Nations written by Serhii Plokhy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-07 with History categories.
This book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses important questions about the origins of the East Slavic nations and the essential similarities or differences between their cultures. It traces the origins of the modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nations by focusing on pre-modern forms of group identity among the Eastern Slavs. It also challenges attempts to 'nationalize' the Rus' past on behalf of existing national projects, laying the groundwork for understanding of the pre-modern history of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The book covers the period from the Christianization of Kyivan Rus' in the tenth century to the reign of Peter I and his eighteenth-century successors, by which time the idea of nationalism had begun to influence the thinking of East Slavic elites.
The Un Polish Poland 1989 And The Illusion Of Regained Historical Continuity
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Author : Tomasz Kamusella
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-08-21
The Un Polish Poland 1989 And The Illusion Of Regained Historical Continuity written by Tomasz Kamusella and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-21 with History categories.
This book discusses historical continuities and discontinuities between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, interwar Poland, the Polish People’s Republic, and contemporary Poland. The year 1989 is seen as a clear point-break that allowed the Poles and their country to regain a ‘natural historical continuity’ with the ‘Second Republic,’ as interwar Poland is commonly referred to in the current Polish national master narrative. In this pattern of thinking about the past, Poland-Lithuania (nowadays roughly coterminous with Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia’s Kaliningrad Region and Ukraine) is seen as the ‘First Republic.’ However, in spite of this ‘politics of memory’ (Geschichtspolitik) – regarding its borders, institutions, law, language, or ethnic and social makeup – present-day Poland, in reality, is the direct successor to and the continuation of communist Poland. Ironically, today’s Poland is very different, in all the aforementioned aspects, from the First and Second Republics. Hence, contemporary Poland is quite un-Polish, indeed, from the perspective of Polishness defined as a historical (that is, legal, social, cultural, ethnic and political) continuity of Poland-Lithuania and interwar Poland.
The Romanov Empire And Nationalism
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Author : Alexei Miller
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2008-02-01
The Romanov Empire And Nationalism written by Alexei Miller and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-01 with Political Science categories.
Miller addresses the fabric of interaction between the imperial authority and local communities in the Romanov empire. How did the authorities structure the space of the empire? What were the economic relations between the borderlands and the center? How was the use of different languages regulated? How did the central authorities and local officials implement policies regarding different population groups? How did the experience, acquired in particular borderlands, influence the policies elsewhere —among others—through officials who often changed their place of service during their careers? How did the local elites and communities react to the policies of the imperial authorities? How did they uphold their special interests if the empire encroached on them, but also—how did they collaborate with the empire and how did they use imperial resources for local interests?
National Heroes And National Identities
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Author : Linas Eriksonas
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2004
National Heroes And National Identities written by Linas Eriksonas and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
This book investigates the concept of the heroic, questions what it is that makes the national hero an indispensable appendage to any possible interpretation of national identity, and asks why scholars stop short before coming to terms with this elusive phenomenon. It finds answers by following heroic traditions in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The book argues that heroic traditions - prevailing trends in situating heroes in national history - owe much to the early modern state. Both national heroes and the nation state had been conceived with a similar moral political mindset that looked for new ways to identify sources for commonality. The confluence of political theory and Realpolitik attested to three classical types of polities, i.e. civitas popularis (democracy), regnum (kingship), and optimatium (aristocracy), as found at that time in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania respectively. The author shows the varied impact these patterns had on heroic traditions. The long record of national heroes in Scotland is explained as a vestige of the legacy of civic humanism, the continuing traditions of the heroic king-lines in Norway are seen as a result of long-standing absolutism, while the belated arrival of national heroes in Lithuania is excused by the country's aristocratic if at times oligarchic past.
Laboratory Of Modernity
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Author : Serhiy Bilenky
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2023-10-15
Laboratory Of Modernity written by Serhiy Bilenky and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-15 with History categories.
When the powers of Europe were at their prime, present-day Ukraine was divided between the Austrian and Russian empires, each imposing different political, social, and cultural models on its subjects. This inevitably led to great diversity in the lives of its inhabitants, shaping modern Ukraine into the multiethnic country it is today. Making innovative use of methods of social and cultural history, gender studies, literary theory, and sociology, Laboratory of Modernity explores the history of Ukraine throughout the long nineteenth century and offers a unique study of its pluralistic society, culture, and political scene. Despite being subjected to different and conflicting power models during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ukraine was not only imagined as a distinct entity with a unique culture and history but was also realized as a set of social and political institutions. The story of modern Ukraine is geopolitically complex, encompassing the historical narratives of several major communities – including ethnic Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, and Russians – who for centuries lived side by side. The first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Ukraine in English, Laboratory of Modernity traces the historical origins of some of the most pressing issues facing Ukraine and the international community today.
The Crosses Of Auschwitz
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Author : Geneviève Zubrzycki
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-10-15
The Crosses Of Auschwitz written by Geneviève Zubrzycki and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-15 with Social Science categories.
In the summer and fall of 1998, ultranationalist Polish Catholics erected hundreds of crosses outside Auschwitz, setting off a fierce debate that pitted Catholics and Jews against one another. While this controversy had ramifications that extended well beyond Poland’s borders, Geneviève Zubrzycki sees it as a particularly crucial moment in the development of post-Communist Poland’s statehood and its changing relationship to Catholicism. In The Crosses of Auschwitz, Zubrzycki skillfully demonstrates how this episode crystallized latent social conflicts regarding the significance of Catholicism in defining “Polishness” and the role of anti-Semitism in the construction of a new Polish identity. Since the fall of Communism, the binding that has held Polish identity and Catholicism together has begun to erode, creating unease among ultranationalists. Within their construction of Polish identity also exists pride in the Polish people’s long history of suffering. For the ultranationalists, then, the crosses at Auschwitz were not only symbols of their ethno-Catholic vision, but also an attempt to lay claim to what they perceived was a Jewish monopoly over martyrdom. This gripping account of the emotional and aesthetic aspects of the scene of the crosses at Auschwitz offers profound insights into what Polishness is today and what it may become.