Title: Constitution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Poland
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Constitutional history, Poland, politics and government, Constitutional history--poland, Dk4329.5 .c66 1997, 943.8/025