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Control # 1 00051179
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20200214162400.0
Fixed Data 8 001017s2001 waub b s001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 00051179
ISBN 20    $a0295980931 (alk. paper)
Obsolete 39    $a302440$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dGCG
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $ae-pl---
LC Call 50 00 $aDK4188$b.S93 2001
Dewey Class 82 00 $a943 s$a943.8/02$221
ME:Pers Name 100 $aStone, Daniel,$d1942-
Title 245 14 $aThe Polish-Lithuanian state, 1386-1795 /$cDaniel Stone.
Imprint 260    $aSeattle :$bUniversity of Washington Press,$cc2001.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axii, 374 p. :$bmaps ;$c25 cm.
Series:Title 440  0 $aHistory of East Central Europe
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 339-356) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aThe Jagiellonian Period, 1386-1572 -- The Vasa Period -- The Eighteenth Century.
Abstract 520    $aFor 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. Included are many brief biographies that advance the narrative and illuminate the subject matter of this comprehensive volume.
Local Note 590    $aRecommended in Resources for College Libraries
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aPoland$xHistory$yTo 1795.