Constitution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Poland
Subtitle: The Constitution of 3 May 1791
Publisher: Indiana University Press; Indiana Univ Pr
Published: February 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9780253333179
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Political structure & processes; World history; Poland - History; Political History; History; History - General History; History: World; Eastern Europe; Germany; Constitutions; Eastern Europe - Poland; Eastern Europe - General; 1763-1796; Constitutional history; Poland; Politics and government
Description: Spanning a number of disciplines and perspectives, the twenty-two chapters in this book were commissioned from scholars from Poland, the United States, England, and Germany. In addition to its focus on the Constitution of 3 May 1791 and the Polish movement for political reform, the book documents the history of Polish parliamentarism and the connection between the American, Polish, and French ideas of a democratic state at the end of the eighteenth century.

The volume is enriched by hundreds of contemporary engravings, maps, and other illustrations.