Representative institutions and political motivation
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Representative institutions and political motivation
(Routledge research in early modern history, . Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the long eighteenth century ; v. 1)
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Examining the ideologies that motivated the members of the parliaments of Sweden, Poland, and Hungary in the Eighteenth Century, this book will appeal to students and researchers alike interested in the early modern institutions which have now been replaced with their more democratic counterparts.
Table of Contents
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
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