"The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-1795" by Richard Butterwick

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-1795 Light and Flame Richard Butterwick

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Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 10 Nov 2020
ISBN:: 9780300252200
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 416 pages: 235 x 156mm
Illustrations:: 32 color illus. + 8 maps
Sales territories:: World

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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.

Richard Butterwick is professor of Polish-Lithuanian history at University College London. He is the author of Poland’s Last King and English Culture and The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788-1792.