Polish democratic thought from the Renaissance to the great emigration : essays and documents / edited with an introduction by M.B. Biskupski & James S. Pula. - [Boulder, Colo.] : [New York] : East European Monographs ; Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1990. - x, 252 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - East European monographs ; no. 289 .

Documents in pt. 2 are English translations accompanied by the original texts in Latin and Polish.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-245) and index

Pt. 1. Essays. Introduction. The sixteenth century roots of the Polish democratic tradition / by James Miller. "Liberty without licence?" : the failure of Polish democratic thought in the seventeenth century / by Robert I. Frost. Democratic thought in eighteenth century Poland / by Daniel Z. Stone. Polish szlachta democracy at the crossroads, 1795-1831 / by Joan S. Skurnowicz. Frataernal politics : Polish and European readicalism during the Great Emigratio / by Kenneth F. Lewalski -- Pt. 2. Documents. Nihil novi. Warsaw Confederation. Henrician Article (Pacta Conventa) A.M. Fredro's defense of the Liberum Veto. Constitution of May 3, 1791. PoĊ‚aniec manifesto. Manifesto of the Polish Democratic Society.



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Political science--History.--Poland
Political science--History--Sources.--Poland
Democracy--History--Sources.

JA84.P7 / P65 1990

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