This book focuses on the history of Royal Prussia--the "other Prussia"--which was part of the Polish state from 1454 to 1793. It studies the complex relationship between Germans and Slavs in the Polish-Prussian borderlands, and demonstrates the importance of national and historical myth-making for power politics. Analyzing the rivalry between the multinational, constitutionalist Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its centralized, dynastic neighbor Brandenburg-Prussia, this study contributes to our understanding of the process of early modern nation-building and the formation of national identity.
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"This study represents a significant contribution to the current discussion of identity formation and the almost peripheral role that language played in the prerevolutionary era." Slavic Review, Vol. 60
"In this excellent book, Karin Friedrich argues convincingly that early modern Prussians were neither Germans nor Poles...[but] a community of citizens who embraced the constitutional agenda of the multinational [Polish-Lithuanian] Commonwealth." American Historical Review
"Friedrich's book is an excellent discussion of political theory and intellectual history that brings in new material and a valuable perspective." The Polish Review
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"This ia an excellent and important study." Journal of Modern History
"This study represents a significant contribution to the current discussion of identity formation and the almost peripheral role that language played in the prerevolutionary era." Slavic Review, Vol. 60
"In this excellent book, Karin Friedrich argues convincingly that early modern Prussians were neither Germans nor Poles...[but] a community of citizens who embraced the constitutional agenda of the multinational [Polish-Lithuanian] Commonwealth." American Historical Review
"Friedrich's book is an excellent discussion of political theory and intellectual history that brings in new material and a valuable perspective." The Polish Review
"[The] book is well-written and tightly organized." The Historian
"This ia an excellent and important study." Journal of Modern History
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This book focuses on the history of Royal Prussia--the 'other Prussia'--which was part of the Polish state from 1454 to 1793. It studies the complex relationship between Germans and Slavs in the Polish-Prussian borderlands, and demonstrates the importance of national and historical myth-making for power politics. Analysing the rivalry between the multi-national, constitutionalist Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its centralised, dynastic neighbour Brandenburg-Prussia, this study contributes to our understanding of the process of early modern nation-building and the formation of national identity.
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Teutonic Knights, Polish Prussia, Teutonic Order, Ducal Prussia, Frederick William, Holy Roman Empire, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish Sejm, Cambridge University Press, New York, Great Northern War, John Casimir, Respublica Polonica, Great Poland, Janusz Mallek, Joachim Pastorius, Stanislaw Salmonowicz, Great Elector, West Prussia, Christoph Hartknoch, Gottfried Lengnich, Hermann Conring, Reinhold Curicke, Samuel Schurtzfleisch, The Other Prussia New!
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Teutonic Knights, Polish Prussia, Teutonic Order, Ducal Prussia, Frederick William, Holy Roman Empire, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish Sejm, Cambridge University Press, New York, Great Northern War, John Casimir, Respublica Polonica, Great Poland, Janusz Mallek, Joachim Pastorius, Stanislaw Salmonowicz, Great Elector, West Prussia, Christoph Hartknoch, Gottfried Lengnich, Hermann Conring, Reinhold Curicke, Samuel Schurtzfleisch, The Other Prussia New!
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- The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Vol. 2: The Age of Reformation by Quentin Skinner on 4 pages
- Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Memory of Ragnhild Hatton by Robert Oresko on page 17, page 149, and Back Matter
- The European Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by H. M. Scott on page 26, page 148, and Back Matter
- Third Reich by Michael Burleigh on page 5, and Back Matter
- National Identity (Ethnonationalism Comparative Perspective) by Anthony D. Smith on page 9, and Back Matter
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- The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558 - 1721 by Robert I. Frost on page 22, and Back Matter
- The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, C. 1500-1795 by Richard Butterwick in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Poland, 1918-1945: An Interpretive and Documentary History of the Second Republic by Peter Stachura in Back Matter
- Poland, 1918-1945: An Interpretive and Documentary History of the Second Republic by Peter Stachura in Back Matter
- A Concise History of Germany (Cambridge Concise Histories) , Second Edition by Mary Fulbrook in Back Matter
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