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9780521833721

A Concise History of the Baltic States

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    9780521833721

  • ISBN10:

    0521833728

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-03-31
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

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 the first 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 a 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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

List of platesp. x
List of mapsp. xii
Prefacep. xiii
The peoples of the eastern Baltic littoralp. 1
The new order, 1200-1500p. 33
The new order reconfigured, 1500-1710p. 77
Installing hegemony: the littoral and tsarist Russia, 1710-1800p. 125
Reforming and controlling the Baltic littoral, 1800-1855p. 170
Five decades of transformations, 1855-1905p. 215
Statehood in troubled times, 1905-1940p. 266
The return of empires, 1940-1991p. 336
Reentering Europe, 1991-p. 402
Suggested readingsp. 449
Indexp. 458
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