During the eighteenth century Europe's republics may have been an integral part of the international scene, but they were marginalised or in decline. When, in 1772, the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania suffered a massive loss of territory to its three more powerful neighbours, R…
Lukowski considers how the republican ideals and the political culture of the ruling classes of the 18th-century Lithuanian Commonwealth remain a part of the historical legacy of what is today Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine and Belarus.
During the eighteenth century Europe's republics may have been an integral part of the international scene, but they were marginalised or in decline. When, in 1772, the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania suffered a massive loss of territory to its three more powerful neighbours, R…
Arguing against pretentious restaurants, Flandrin argues that such changes in the food service are far from distinct events. Instead he regards it as a historical phenomenon, one that changed in response to socioeconomic and cultural factors.
"For this, his last book, which was published in France after his death in 2002, Jean-Louis Flandrin researched cookbooks, memoirs, travel literature, and journalistic essays to produce a chronological study of food-order etiquette. Taking as his primary focus the sequence and c…
"For this, his last book, which was published in France after his death in 2002, Jean-Louis Flandrin researched cookbooks, memoirs, travel literature, and journalistic essays to produce a chronological study of food-order etiquette. Taking as his primary focus the sequence and c…