Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Maps

Part One: The Jagiellonian Period, 1386-1572

1. Jogaila/Jagiello

2. Jagiello’s Successors: Wladyslaw III, Kazimierz IV, Jan Olbracht, and Aleksander

3. Zygmunt I the Old

4. Zygmunt II August

5. Ecomonics & Society in the Jagiellonian Period

6. Artistic Culture & Education in the Jagiellonian Period

7. First Interlude: Henri Valois & Stefan Batory

Part Two: The Vasa Period

8. Zygmunt II Vasa (Waza)

9. Wladyslaw IV

10. Jan Kazimierz

11. Noble Democracy as a Political System

12. Economics & Society in the Vasa Period

13. Culture in the Vasa Period

14. Second Interlude: Michal Wisniowiecki & Jan III Sobieski

Part Three: The Eighteenth Century

15. August II

16. August III

17. Stanislaw August Poniatowski

18. Economics &Society in the Eighteenth Century

19. Culture in the Eighteenth Century

Epilogue

Bibliographical Essay

Index

Promotional Information

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