UID:
almahu_9949281251202882
Umfang:
1 online resource (276 p.)
ISBN:
3-653-99944-8
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3-653-04952-0
Serie:
Geschichte, Erinnerung, Politik, Band 7
Inhalt:
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,
Anmerkung:
Includes index.
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Cover; Foreword; Chapter 1: At the sources; 1. Prehistory; 2. The breakthrough: the printing press and the town; 3. Places and institutions: Warsaw; 4. Places and institutions: The province; Chapter 2: Friars, men-of-letters and Jacobins (1764-1795); 1. Where did they come from?; 2. The Academic Order; 3. The Polish officialdom at its outset; 4. Doctors and other foreigners; 5. Men-of-letters, artists, blue-stockings; 6. Educated man as an ideal; 7. Reason enlightened; 8. Conclusion; Chapter 3: "Some new Trojans..." (1795-1807); 1. "...in their new homeland..."; 2. "Sciences augmented"
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Chapter 4: In the service of the State (1807-1830)1. How intellectuals turned into bureaucrats; 2. In the wake of the Commission of National Education; 3. The new people; 4. The urban life; 5. Ideals: old and new; Chapter 5: Toward a revolution; 1. The youth, and what they were after; 2. The intelligentsia and the authority; 3. The Insurrection; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 3-631-62375-5
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-322-49787-7
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-653-04952-7
