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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      24 February 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511470646
      9780521583350
      9780521027755
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470646
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.635kg, 308 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 308 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
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    This book considers the phenomenon of nation-building before the age of modern nationalism. It focuses on royal (Polish) Prussia - the 'other' Prussia - a province of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1466 to 1772/3, and its major cities Danzig, Thorn and Elbing. As an integral part of the Polish state the Prussian estates took pride in their separate institutions and privileges. Although its urban elites became predominantly Protestant and German-speaking, they formulated a republican identity deliberately hostile to the competing monarchical-dynastic myth in neighbouring ducal Prussia, ruled by the Brandenburg-Hohenzollerns from 1618. After 1700, the Polish crown increasingly antagonized the Prussian burghers by its centralizing policies and its failure to protect the integrity of the Commonwealth's borders. The decline of Poland and the partitions of 1772–93 guaranteed that it was not the tradition of liberty but the Hohenzollern version of Prussian identity that survived into the modern era. Joint winner of the Orbis book prize, The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

    Awards

    Joint winner of the Orbis book prize, The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

    Reviews

    ‘This sensitive and intelligent recuperation of one of history’s lost causes offers a poignant variation on the standard narrative of European nationalism.’

    Source: German History

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