Poland's Last King and English Culture
Stanislaw August Poniatowski, 1732-1798
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 12 March 1998
- ISBN 9780198207016
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 224x146x27 mm
- Weight 626 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece, halftones 0
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Short description:
The attempt by Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764-95) `to create anew the Polish world' was one of the most audacious enterprises of reform undertaken by any enlightened monarch in the eighteenth century. Inspired by his love of England, the king's efforts helped bring about a flourishing of Polish culture and a constitution admired across Europe. They also provoked the revenge of Russia and the partitioning of the state. With new perspectives on the successes and limitations of the Polish Enlightenment, this book presents a dynamic interpretation of European culture in the eighteenth century.
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The attempt by Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764-95) 'to create anew the Polish world' was one of the most audacious enterprises of reform undertaken by any enlightened monarch in the eighteenth century. None started in less promising circumstances. Politically the King was trapped between a Russian protectorate and a nobility wedded to its anarchic liberty. The beginnings of the Polish Enlightenment had yet to make more than ripples on the stagnant waters of Polish culture. Yet by 1791, Poland-Lithuania had made a huge cultural advance, and had given herself a constitution admired across Europe. Tragically for Poland, her neighbours then destroyed much of these achievements and partitioned the country out of existence. Stanislaw August died in exile, cursed by most of his compatriots to this day.
In Poland's Last King, Richard Butterwick reassesses the achievement of Poland's last and most controversial king. He shows how Stanislaw's radical plans for reform of Poland's constitution and culture were profoundly influenced by his love of England, and examines the successes and limitations of the Polish Enlightenment.
Richard Butterwick makes an important new contribution to our knowledge ... Butterwick's book is based on extensive research. His comprehensive discussion of Polish-English cultural contacts comes from fresh archival material. The political sections, while including archival material, come mostly from a review of Polish historiography of the 1990s which is unknown to English-language readers.
