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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murphy, Curtis G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Series in Russian and East European studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.