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Disorderly liberty : the political culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the eighteenth century /
During the eighteenth century Europe's republics may have been an integral part of the international scene, but they were marginalised or in decline. When, in 1772, the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania suffered a massive loss of territory to its three more powerful neighbours, Russia, Prussia a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2010.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in Eastern European history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | During the eighteenth century Europe's republics may have been an integral part of the international scene, but they were marginalised or in decline. When, in 1772, the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania suffered a massive loss of territory to its three more powerful neighbours, Russia, Prussia and Austria, Edmund Burke's question 'Poland was but a breakfast ... where will they dine?' was asked across the continent's lesser states, republics and non-republics alike. The slow, almost inevitable, process of Poland's digestion may have contributed to the relative ease with which that process was acce. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441145802 144114580X |