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Author : Alfreds Bilmanis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Baltic States
ISBN : UOM:39015009129175
Author : Michael North
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674744103
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 : Michael North
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019375794
The Baltic in the early modern period has been called a 'Nordic Mediterranean'. In the studies collected here, Professor North is concerned to examine the ways in which this Baltic region became integrated into the international division of labour and the emerging world economy. The volume opens with a new introductory essay, and the first section then focuses on commodities exported to Western Europe - grain, timber, flax, hemp and other raw materials. The following studies examine how this ever growing bulk trade stimulated a flow of money and payments in the opposite direction, and led to the formation of the manorial economy and second serfdom in the grain-producing countries of the Baltic hinterlands.
Author : Lennart Bes,Edda Frankot,Hanno Brand
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 2408 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047432517
Covering almost 1000 archival collections in all countries around the Baltic Sea (including the Netherlands), this guide provides an essential tool for scholars studying the region's maritime, economic and diplomatic relations between 1450 and 1800.
Author : Romuald Misiunas,Rein Taagepera
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0520082281
Describes and analyzes how the Baltic nations survived 50 years of social disruption, language discrimination and Russian colonialism, and the effect of the Baltic states' stubborn invincibility on the Soviet Union. The history of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are integrated and compared.
Author : Romuald J. Misiunas,Rein Taagepera
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0520082273
In this updated edition of their renowned The Baltic States, Romuald Misiunas and Rein Taagepera bring the story of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia up to the 1990s. The authors describe and analyze how the Baltic nations survived fifty years of social disruption, language discrimination, and Russian colonialism. The nations' histories are fully integrated and compared, and some notable differences between them are pointed out. With two new chapters, a revised preface, and an appendix on the end of Soviet domination, this expanded study covers a tumultuous period of political, economic, cultural, and ecological reform.
Author : Romuald J. Misiunas,Rein Taagepera
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520046250
Geschiedenis van Estland, Letland en Litauen
Author : Walter Minchinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:845074665
Author : P. L. Cottrell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0754661210
Based on papers given to the European Association for Banking History conference held in Stockholm in 2002, this volume presents a broad investigation into the relationship between the centre and the periphery in banking. Focusing on the historical development of financial markets, from their emergence in the early modern period to today's global financial and capital markets, the chapters investigate how local, national and international relationships have affected and helped shape the banking industry over three-hundred years. This very wide-ranging discussion in time and place is provided by a group of international experts, encompassing bankers, economists, economic historians and historians, and will be of interest to all those with a scholarly or professional interest in the development of financial institutions.
Author : Rafał B. Reichert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004689640
By focussing on timber sourcing, this book sheds light on the exploitation of forests in settings outside the Iberian Peninsula, including foreign states in the southern Baltic region and the colonial territory of New Spain between the c.1740-1795. Analysis of contracts, projects, and their implementation by the Spanish crown in the 18th century allow for a better understanding of the position of the Spanish monarchy’s nearly global efforts to sustain its naval commitments in the Atlantic World.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401202770
Emerging from the ruins of the former Soviet Union, the literature of the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia is analyzed from the fruitful perspective of postcolonialism, a theoretical approach whose application to former second-world countries is in its initial stages. This groundbreaking volume brings scholars working in the West together with those who were previously muffled behind the Iron Curtain. They gauge the impact of colonization on the culture of the Baltic states and demonstrate the relevance of concepts first elaborated by a wide range of critics from Frantz Fanon to Homi Bhabha. Examining literary texts and the situation of the intellectual reveals Baltic concerns with identity and integrity, the rewriting of previously blotted out or distorted history, and a search for meaning in societies struggling to establish their place in the world after decades - and perhaps millennia - of oppression. The volume dips into the late Tsarist period, then goes more deeply into Soviet deportations to the Gulag, while the main focus is on works of the turning-point in the late 1980s and 1990s. Postcolonial concepts like mimicry, subjectivity and the Other provide a new discourse that yields fresh insights into the colonized countries’ culture and their poignant attempts to fight, to adapt and to survive.This book will be of interest to literary critics, Baltic scholars, historians and political scientists of Eastern Europe, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, working in the area of postcommunism and anyone interested in learning more about these ancient and vibrant cultures.
Author : Walter E. Minchinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Baltic States
ISBN : UVA:X001188987
Author : H. Arnold Barton
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809387052
Essays on Scandinavian History examines important aspects of the history of Sweden and its Nordic neighbors between the later eighteenth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. Historian H. Arnold Barton has selected thirteen of the numerous essays he has published over the past forty years on the history of Scandinavia. This is a companion volume to Barton's The Old Country and the New, an essay collection on Swedish emigration and the Swedes in America. Included here are studies of the special significance of the eighteenth century in Sweden's history and culture, the relationship of King Gustaf III to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the impact of the American Revolution in Sweden, and Gustaf III's ambitions in the East Baltic region. Also detailed are the king's early reaction to the French Revolution and his efforts to organize a European coalition to crush it, a reassessment of the reign and internal reforms of Gustaf IV Adolf, and the Swedish succession crises of 1809 and 1810. In addition, Barton examines the increasing tension between the Pan-Scandinavian movement and the rising Finnish national movement. He deals with the historians of the Danish Agrarian Reforms of 1784-1814, parallel developments in Finland and Norway between 1808 and 1917, the discovery of Norway abroad, Swedish national romanticism, and Sweden's transition from a warfare state to a welfare state, now exemplifying the rational and humane ideals of the twentieth century. Essays on Scandinavian History highlights important topics in the history of the Scandinavian region, which has remained all too little known outside the Nordic lands themselves, while also offering broader perspectives on Europe since the mid-eighteenth century. Twelve keyed-to-text illustrations, a bibliography of Barton's publications on Scandinavian history, essay endnotes, and an index augment this work.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : IND:30000113907541
Author : G. Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Economics
ISBN : OXFORD:600004139