Andrejs Plakans

A Concise History of the Baltic States

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Produktbeschreibung

The Baltic region is frequently neglected in broader histories of Europe and its international significance can be obscured by separate treatments of the various Baltic states. With this wide-ranging survey, Andrejs Plakans presents an integrated history of three Baltic peoples - Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians - and draws out the common threads to show how it has been shaped by their location in a strategically desirable corner of Europe. Subordinated in turn by Baltic German landholders, the Polish nobility and gentry, and then by Russian and Soviet administrators, the three nations have nevertheless kept their distinctive identities - significantly retaining three separate languages in an ethnically diverse region. The book traces the countries' evolution from their ninth-century tribal beginnings to their present status as three thriving and separate nation states, focusing particularly on the region's complex twentieth-century history, which culminated in the eventual re-establishment of national sovereignty after 1991.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Concise Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9780521541558
• ISBN-10: 0521541557
• Artikelnr.: 32206422

Autorenporträt

Andrejs Plakans is Professor Emeritus at the Department of History, Iowa State University. His previous publications include The Latvians: A Short History (1995) and the Historical Dictionary of Latvia, 2nd edition (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The peoples of the Eastern Baltic Littoral; 2. The new order, 1200-1500; 3. The new order reconfigured, 1500-1710; 4. Installing hegemony: the Littoral and Tsarist Russia, 1710-1800; 5. Reforming and controlling the Baltic Littoral, 1800-55; 6. Five decades of transformations, 1855-1905; 7. Statehood in troubled times, 1905-40; 8. The return of empires, 1940-91; 9. Reentering Europe: 1991; Suggested readings.

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1. The peoples of the Eastern Baltic Littoral; 2. The new order, 1200
1500; 3. The new order reconfigured, 1500
1710; 4. Installing hegemony: the Littoral and Tsarist Russia, 1710
1800; 5. Reforming and controlling the Baltic Littoral, 1800
55; 6. Five decades of transformations, 1855
1905; 7. Statehood in troubled times, 1905
40; 8. The return of empires, 1940
91; 9. Reentering Europe: 1991; Suggested readings.

Rezensionen

'A masterful survey of the history of the eastern Baltic littoral by one of the leading authorities in the field. Plakans' book provides the most accessible account to date of the rise of modern nationhood and of the commonalities of fate that have bound the peoples of the region during the modern era. Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding contemporary Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.' David J. Smith, University of Glasgow