The History of Lithuania Before 1795

The History of Lithuania Before 1795
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Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015051834623
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Synopsis The History of Lithuania Before 1795 by : Zigmantas Kiaupa

The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795

The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 9780295803623
ISBN-13 : 0295803622
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Synopsis The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795 by : Daniel Z. Stone

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.

The History of Lithuania

The History of Lithuania
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Publisher : Eugrimas Publishing House
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 6094371631
ISBN-13 : 9786094371639
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Synopsis The History of Lithuania by : Alfonsas Eidintas

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-1795

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-1795
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 506
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ISBN-10 : 9780300252200
ISBN-13 : 030025220X
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Synopsis The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-1795 by : Richard Butterwick

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 Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania

The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 650
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ISBN-10 : 9780192568144
ISBN-13 : 0192568140
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Synopsis The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania by : Robert I. Frost

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.

The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, C.1500-1795

The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, C.1500-1795
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 1349416185
ISBN-13 : 9781349416189
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Synopsis The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, C.1500-1795 by : R. Butterwick

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.

Lithuania Ascending

Lithuania Ascending
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9781107658769
ISBN-13 : 1107658764
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Synopsis Lithuania Ascending by : S. C. Rowell

This book, first published in 1994, studies the rise of a pagan state in late medieval Christendom against a background of crises in Europe.

A History of Lithuania

A History of Lithuania
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Total Pages : 47
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ISBN-10 : 995554810X
ISBN-13 : 9789955548102
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Synopsis A History of Lithuania by : Stephen Christopher Rowell

Between Rome and Byzantium

Between Rome and Byzantium
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Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9781644693650
ISBN-13 : 1644693658
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Synopsis Between Rome and Byzantium by : Jūratė Kiaupienė

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.

Litva: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Litva: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 154
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ISBN-10 : 9781101630822
ISBN-13 : 1101630825
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Synopsis Litva: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by : Norman Davies

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.