Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, 16th-18th centuries
| Titel: | Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, 16th-18th centuries : the formation and disappearance of an ethnic group / by Peter Paul Bajer |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2012 |
| Umfang: | XXVIII, 588 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
The Northern world ; 57 |
| ISBN: | 9789004212473 ; 9004212477 |
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Kurzbeschreibung
Ausführliche Beschreibung Inhaltsverzeichnis |
In the period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries a considerable number of Scots migrated to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Some sojourned there for some time, while others stayed permanently and exercised commercial business and crafts. The migration stopped in the eighteenth century, and the Scots who remained in Poland seem to have lost their ethnic identity. This book offers an examination and assessment of this migration: numbers of migrants; patterns of settlement; laws regulating Scottish presence in Poland-Lithuania; their commercial, academic, religious and military activities; their social advancement into the Polish nobility; their assimilation and then the eventual disappearance as a distinct ethnic group in Poland-Lithuania.
