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Author : Andrejs Plakans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521833728
An integrated history of three Baltic peoples - Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians - from their origins as tribal societies to separate nations.
Author : Andres Kasekamp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 113757366X
In this key textbook, Andres Kasekamp masterfully traces the development of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, from the northern crusades against Europe's last pagans and Lithuania's rise to become one of medieval Europe's largest states, to their incorporation into the Russian Empire and the creation of their modern national identities. Employing a comparative approach, a particular emphasis is placed upon the last one hundred years, during which the Baltic states achieved independence, endured occupation by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and transformed themselves into members of the European Union. This is an essential textbook for undergraduate students taking modules on Eastern or Central European History, Communism and Post-Communism, the Soviet Union, or Baltic Culture and Politics. Engaging and accessible, this is also an ideal introduction to the Baltic States for general readers.
Author : Sir Donald Mackenzie WALLACE
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 1914
Category :
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Author : Caroline Boggis-Rolfe
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445688514
The Baltic Story recounts the shared history of the countries around the Baltic, from the events of a thousand years ago to the present day.
Author : Nigel Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1472830792
Immediately following the end of World War I, amid the collapse of the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires, bitter fighting broke out in the Baltic region as Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania struggled for their independence, and Red and White Russian armies began their civil war. There were also German forces still active in what had been the northern end of Germany's Eastern Front. This book offers a concise but detailed introduction to this whole theatre of war, focusing on the Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and relevant German and Russian forces, plus Finnish, Danish and Swedish contingents. For each region there is a detailed map as well as meticulous orders-of-battle and insignia charts. Detailed for the first time in the English language, this fascinating book concisely tells the story of the birth of these Baltic nation states.
Author : Michael North
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0674426045
In this overview of the Baltic region from the Vikings to the European Union, Michael North presents the sea and the lands that surround it as a Nordic Mediterranean, a maritime zone of shared influence, with its own distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. Covering over a thousand years in a part of the world where seas have been much more connective than land, The Baltic: A History transforms the way we think about a body of water too often ignored in studies of the world’s major waterways. The Baltic lands have been populated since prehistory by diverse linguistic groups: Balts, Slavs, Germans, and Finns. North traces how the various tribes, peoples, and states of the region have lived in peace and at war, as both global powers and pawns of foreign regimes, and as exceptionally creative interpreters of cultural movements from Christianity to Romanticism and Modernism. He examines the golden age of the Vikings, the Hanseatic League, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and Peter the Great, and looks at the hard choices people had to make in the twentieth century as fascists, communists, and liberal democrats played out their ambitions on the region’s doorstep. With its vigorous trade in furs, fish, timber, amber, and grain and its strategic position as a thruway for oil and natural gas, the Baltic has been—and remains—one of the great economic and cultural crossroads of the world.
Author : David Kirby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 052183225X
An up-to-date political, social and economic history of Finland from medieval times to the present. David Kirby traces the evolution of Finland's distinctive identity and of the Finnish national state from the long centuries under Swedish rule, through self-government within the Russian Empire, to independence in the twentieth century.
Author : Peter Wende
Publisher :
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 9781403938121
Author : Alan Palmer
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1590209265
Alan Palmer traces the history of the Baltic region from its early Viking days and its time under the Byzantine Empire through its medieval prime when the Baltic Sea served as one of Europe’s central trading grounds. Palmer addresses both the strong nationalist sentiments that have driven Baltic culture and the early attempts at Baltic unification by Sweden and Russia. The Baltic also dissects the politics and culture of the region in the twentieth century, when it played multiple historic roles: it was the Eastern Front in the First World War; the setting of early uprisings in the Russian Revolution; a land occupied by the Nazis during the Second World War; and, until very recently, a region dominated by the Soviets. In the twenty-first century, increasing attention has been focused on the Baltic states as they grow into their own in spite of growing neo-imperialist pressure from post-Soviet Russia. In The Baltic, Alan Palmer provides readers with a detailed history of the nations and peoples that are now poised to emerge as some of Europe’s most vital democracies.
Author : Andrejs Plakans
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 36,84 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Latvia
ISBN : 9780817993030
This postperestroika historical narrative should contribute significantly to assessing the likelihood of Latvia's survival as an independent republic."--BOOK JACKET.