From Citizens to Subjects : City, State, and the Enlightenment in Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus /
From Citizens to Subjects challenges the common assertion in historiography that Enlightenment-era centralization and rationalization brought progress and prosperity to all European states, arguing instead that centralization failed to improve the socioeconomic position of urban residents in the for...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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Colección: | Series in Russian and East European studies.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : progress or backwardness? Enlightened centralism versus civic republicanism in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- We built this city on Magdeburg Law : cities and citizens in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before the first partition
- If only our commission had more power : enlightened centralism and the royal cities after the first partition
- Weaponizing good order : urban politics and civic republicanism in the era of constitutional reform and partition, 1788-1809
- Enlightened profit-seeking : the private towns of the Zamoyski and Radziwiłł estates in the eighteenth century
- The apogee of enlightened centralism : town and state in the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic period
- The persistence of the old Commonwealth : cities, nobles, and the state in the western provinces of the Russian Empire
- Conclusion : emancipating citizens into subjects.