Citizenship and identity in a multinational commonwealth : Poland-Lithuania in context, 1550-1772 / / edited by Karin Friedrich and Barbara M. Pendzich.

This volume seeks to address the doubts harboured by the West about the ability of East Central European states to build modern democracies and tolerant societies after the expansion of the European Union eastwards. The tradition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is thereby often overlooked in f...

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Superior document:Studies in Central European histories, v. 46
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Central European histories ; v. 46.
Physical Description:1 online resource (339 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Monarch, citizens, and the law under Stefan Batory : the legal reform of 1578 / Felicia Ro{commab}su
  • Citizenship in the periphery : royal Prussia and the Union of Lublin 1569 / Karin Friedrich
  • The practice of citizenship among the Lithuanian nobility, ca. 1580-1630 / Art{macr}uras Vasiliauskas
  • Civic resilience and cohesion in the face of Muscovite occupation / Barbara M. Pendzich
  • Identity formation in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth / Gershon David Hundert
  • Khmelnytsky's shadow : the confessional legacy / Barbara Skinner
  • Commonwealth of all faiths : republican myth and the Italian diaspora in sixteenth-century Poland-Lithuania / Joanna Kostylo
  • 'County republicans' and the concept of active citizenship in sixteenth-century Poland and France / James B. Collins
  • The hidden commonwealth : Poland-Lithuania and Scottish political discourse in the seventeenth century / Allan Macinnes
  • Freedom, state and "national unity" in Lord Acton's thought / Krzysztof ℗Łazarski.