Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century

Volume I: Representative Institutions and Political Motivation
Herausgeber: Blockmans, Wim; Szijártó, István M.; Kontler, László

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume investigates the history of the representative assemblies of Sweden (the Riksdag), Poland (the sejm) and Hungary (the diaeta) in the final period of the ancien regime.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Early Modern History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9781032071411
• ISBN-10: 1032071419
• Artikelnr.: 64105046

Autorenporträt

István M. Szijártó is a professor in the Department of Economic and Social History at Eötvös University, Hungary. Wim Blockmans is professor emeritus in Medieval History at the University of Leiden, Netherlands. László Kontler is a professor in the Department of History at the Central European University, Austria and Hungary.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: parliamentarism in the age of absolutism / Comparing
Representative Institutions: the historiography and the challenges /
Chapter 1: The peasant estate of Sweden: its rise and early modern
evolution / Chapter 2: The 'common good' or the particularism of the
nobility? The political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the
first half of the eighteenth century / Chapter 3: Instruments of Conviction
in the Political Culture of eighteenth-century Hungary / Chapter 4: The
Estates in the middle: populist absolutism and constitutionalism in early
modern Swedish politics / Chapter 5: From confession to constitution: the
motivation of the Hungarian political elite in the middle of the eighteenth
century / Chapter 6: Maria Theresa's Monarchy: between inheritable merits
and remunerable loyalty / Chapter 7: Political ambition: The concept in
Montesquieu and in his Hungarian reception, 1748-1848 / Chapter 8:
Domicilium libertatis or a threat to liberty? Eighteenth-century
discussions on the role and place of the Sejm within the system of
government of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Chapter 9: The growth of
political instability and the royal coup in Sweden, c. 1760-1780 / Chapter
10: Pragmatism triumphant: Hungary's political culture in the age of the
French Revolution / Chapter 11: Role perception in the first modern
Hungarian parliament, 1848-1849