Format:
1 online resource (276 pages)
Edition:
200th ed.
ISBN:
9783653049527
Series Statement:
Studies in History, Memory and Politics Series v.7
Content:
This first of three parts of the History of the Polish Intelligentsia deals with the time from 1750 to 1831. It traces the formation of the intelligentsia as a social class, stresses the importance of the birth of bureaucratic institutions and analyses the results of the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795.
Content:
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" -- 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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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631623756
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783631623756
Language:
English
