The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795

by Daniel Stone

For four centuries, the Polish-Lithuanian state encompassed a major geographic region comparable to present-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Estonia, and Romania. Governed by a constitutional monarchy that offered the numerous nobility extensive civil and political rights, it enjoyed unusual domestic tranquility, for its military strength kept most enemies at bay until the mid-seventeenth century and the country generally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295980931
• ISBN13: 9780295980935
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"