Jerzy Lukowski
University of Birmingham
23 Papers
228 Citations
Jerzy Lukowski is an academic researcher from University of Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Commonwealth & Nobility. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 23 publications.
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Liberty's folly : the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth in the eighteenth century, 1697-1795
Jerzy Lukowski
- 01 Jan 1991
TL;DR: In the closing years of the 18th century, the old Polish state paid the price of over 100 years of ungovernability in political extinction Between 1772 and 1795 an area of Eastern Europe larger than France was divided among Russia, Prussia and Austria as mentioned in this paper.
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A concise history of Poland
Jerzy Lukowski,Hubert Zawadzki +1 more
- 01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: The second edition of this guide to Poland has been updated to take account of the years from 1989-2005 as mentioned in this paper, which marked its liberation from the Soviet Union, the birth of Poland's 'Third Republic' and, recently, its accession to the European Union in 2004.
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The European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century
Jerzy Lukowski
- 01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: A survey of the European Nobility in the Eighteenth century can be found in this paper, with a focus on the education of the Nobles' resources and their life styles.
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Recasting Utopia: Montesquieu, Rousseau and the Polish constitution of 3 May 1791
TL;DR: The first partition of 1772 starkly revealed the weaknesses of the Polish polity, but any hopes of major political overhaul were frustrated by the dead hand of Russian ambassadorial policing as discussed by the authors.
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Disorderly Liberty: The Political Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century
Jerzy Lukowski
- 05 Aug 2010
TL;DR: The Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania: an introductory survey and the search for harmony, as well as otheriscoveries, are presented.
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