Birth of the Intelligentsia - 1750-1831 A History of the Polish Intelligentsia - Part 1, edited by Jerzy Jedlicki
The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part one (1750-1831) traces the formation of the intelligentsia as a social class in the epoch of Enlightenment. It stresses the importance of the birth o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bern
Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group
2015
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| Series: | Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics
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| Collection: | Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part one (1750-1831) traces the formation of the intelligentsia as a social class in the epoch of Enlightenment. It stresses the importance of the birth of bureaucratic institutions that created the demand for the educated stratum. It analyses the results of the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795 - the ominous event that transformed the political geography of East Central Europe. The work combines social and intellectual history, tracing both the formation of the intelligentsia as a social stratum and the forms of engagement of the intelligentsia in the public discourse. Thus, it offers a broad view of the group's transformations which immensely influenced the course of the Polish history. |
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| Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (274 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9783653999440 978-3-653-04952-7 9783631623756 9783653999433 9783653049527 |