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Author : Zigmantas Kiaupa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of Lithuania Before 1795 written by Zigmantas Kiaupa and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Z. Stone
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295803622
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795 written by Daniel Z. Stone and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four centuries, the Polish�Lithuanian state encompassed a major geographic region comparable to present-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Estonia, and Romania. Governed by a constitutional monarchy that offered the numerous nobility extensive civil and political rights, it enjoyed unusual domestic tranquility, for its military strength kept most enemies at bay until the mid-seventeenth century and the country generally avoided civil wars. Selling grain and timber to western Europe helped make it exceptionally wealthy for much of the period. The Polish�Lithuanian State, 1386�1795 is the first account in English devoted specifically to this important era. It takes a regional rather than a national approach, considering the internal development of the Ukrainian, Jewish, Lithuanian, and Prussian German nations that coexisted with the Poles in this multinational state. Presenting Jewish history also clarifies urban history, because Jews lived in the unincorporated "private cities" and suburbs, which historians have overlooked in favor of incorporated "royal cities." In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the private cities and suburbs often thrived while the inner cities decayed. The book also traces the institutional development of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland�Lithuania, one of the few European states to escape bloody religious conflict during the Reformation and Counter Reformation. Both seasoned historians and general readers will appreciate the many excellent brief biographies that advance the narrative and illuminate the subject matter of this comprehensive and absorbing volume.
Author : Alfonsas Eidintas
Publisher : Eugrimas Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9786094371639
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (716 download)
Download or read book The History of Lithuania written by Alfonsas Eidintas and published by Eugrimas Publishing House. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Butterwick
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030025220X
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-1795 written by Richard Butterwick and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Robert I. Frost
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191017876
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union 1385-1569 written by Robert I. Frost and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of eastern European is dominated by the story of the rise of the Russian empire, yet Russia only emerged as a major power after 1700. For 300 years the greatest power in Eastern Europe was the union between the kingdom of Poland and the grand duchy of Lithuania, one of the longest-lasting political unions in European history. Yet because it ended in the late-eighteenth century in what are misleadingly termed the Partitions of Poland, it barely features in standard accounts of European history. The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union 1385-1569 tells the story of the formation of a consensual, decentralised, multinational, and religiously plural state built from below as much as above, that was founded by peaceful negotiation, not war and conquest. From its inception in 1385-6, a vision of political union was developed that proved attractive to Poles, Lithuanians, Ruthenians, and Germans, a union which was extended to include Prussia in the 1450s and Livonia in the 1560s. Despite the often bitter disagreements over the nature of the union, these were nevertheless overcome by a republican vision of a union of peoples in one political community of citizens under an elected monarch. Robert Frost challenges interpretations of the union informed by the idea that the emergence of the sovereign nation state represents the essence of political modernity, and presents the Polish-Lithuanian union as a case study of a composite state. The modern history of Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus cannot be understood without an understanding of the legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian union. This volume is the first detailed study of the making of that union ever published in English.
Author : S. C. Rowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107658764
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Lithuania Ascending written by S. C. Rowell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1994, studies the rise of a pagan state in late medieval Christendom against a background of crises in Europe.
Author : Theodore R. Weeks
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609091914
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Vilnius between Nations, 1795–2000 written by Theodore R. Weeks and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inhabitants of Vilnius, the present-day capital of Lithuania, have spoken various languages and professed different religions while living together in relative harmony over the years. The city has played a significant role in the history and development of at least three separate cultures—Polish, Lithuanian, and Jewish—and until very recently, no single cultural-linguistic group composed the clear majority of its population. Vilnius between Nations, 1795–2000 is the first study to undertake a balanced assessment of this particularly diverse city. Theodore Weeks examines Vilnius as a physical entity where people lived, worked, and died; as the object of rhetorical struggles between disparate cultures; and as a space where the state attempted to legitimize a specific version of cultural politics through street names, monuments, and urban planning. In investigating these aspects, Weeks avoids promoting any one national narrative of the history of the city, while acknowledging the importance of national cultures and their opposing myths of the city's identity. The story of Vilnius as a multicultural city and the negotiations that allowed several national groups to inhabit a single urban space can provide lessons that are easily applied to other diverse cities. This study will appeal to scholars of Eastern Europe, urban studies, and multiculturalism, as well as general readers interested in the region.
Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101630825
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Litva: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania written by Norman Davies and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of a Baltic empire’s dominance and decline—excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms Vanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-powerful European empires that have left scant traces on the modern map. In this excerpt from his widely acclaimed book, Norman Davies tells the ill-fated story of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Founded in the mid-thirteenth century in one of the continent’s first settled regions, where the oldest of its Indo-European languages is spoken, the Grand Duchy at its peak was the largest country in Europe, stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and it commanded yet greater influence after uniting with its western neighbor, the Kingdom of Poland, to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Grand Duchy’s huge territory included the great cities of Kiev, Vilnius, Riga, Minsk, and Brest. Despite being ahead of its time as an elective republic in an age of absolute monarchy, power struggles and foreign incursions led to its ultimate demise and forced partition by Russia, Prussia, and Austria in 1795. In this selection from a work The Boston Globe has called “commendably accessible, magisterial, and uncommonly humane,” Davies chronicles these rich yet unfamiliar chapters in the history of modern Lithuania, Belarus, and Latvia with his signature acuity and verve.
Author : Richard Unger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047442687
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Britain and Poland-Lithuania written by Richard Unger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four papers deal with various aspects of the economies, politics, religion, art, and culture of Britain and Poland-Lithuania from the Middle Ages down to the Third Partition, illustrating unexpected similarities and long-standing ties between the two regions.
Author : Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032093055
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Social and Cultural Relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania written by Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the complex and fascinating social, cultural and confessional relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (+1795) through close readings of newly discovered or long neglected sources, emphasizing urban and rural spaces, families, communities, networks and travels.
Author : Zigmantas Kiaupa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Lithuania written by Zigmantas Kiaupa and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jūratė Kiaupienė
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644693658
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Between Rome and Byzantium written by Jūratė Kiaupienė and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is the unique socio-political and socio-cultural community of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the golden age of the late fifteenth to early seventeenth century. This study analyses the cultural and political impact of the values disseminated in the newly created state, such as the concept of the state itself, its governance, representation, laws, and other elements of the socio-political system. Through theoretical and factographic arguments, this book demonstrates that the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a social, political, and cultural link between geopolitical and geo-cultural spaces of the Roman West and the Byzantine East. Located at the cultural crossroads of Europe, Lithuania was an ethnically diverse, multilingual, multi-faith, multicultural national space. Nurtured by international contacts, its political system developed rapidly, influencing the formation of geopolitical and geo-cultural mentality of the whole Central Eastern European region.
Author : Alfonsas Eidintas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786094373275
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (732 download)
Download or read book The History of Lithuania written by Alfonsas Eidintas and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Butterwick
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0333993802
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (339 download)
Download or read book The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, C.1500-1795 written by R. Butterwick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-06-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is often considered an 'aberration' where monarchy was reduced by the nobility to impotence, and which was consequently partitioned. However, historians' reappraisal of monarchy in early modern Europe calls for a reconsideration of the extent of Polish-Lithuanian 'divergence'. The essays of this collection assess the institution and idea of monarchy in one of Europe's largest and most neglected states. It will appeal to all those interested in early modern history.
Author : Jerzy Lukowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052185332X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book A Concise History of Poland written by Jerzy Lukowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated and expanded second edition covering Polish history from medieval times to the present day.
Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105865
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Reconstruction of Nations written by Timothy Snyder and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet he begins with the principles of toleration that prevailed in much of early modern eastern Europe and concludes with the peaceful resolution of national tensions in the region since 1989.".
Author : Cristina Dondi
Publisher : Ca' Foscari -Digital Publishin
ISBN 13 : 9788869693335
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Printing R-evolution and Society 1450-1500 written by Cristina Dondi and published by Ca' Foscari -Digital Publishin. This book was released on 2020 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
