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" The Baltic world, 1772-1993 : "
David Kirby.
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BL
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892167
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Kirby, D. G.
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The Baltic world, 1772-1993 : : Europe's northern periphery in an age of change /\ David Kirby.
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London ;New York :: Longman,, 1995.
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viii, 472 pages :: maps ;; 23 cm
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058200408X
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: 0582004098
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: 9780582004085
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: 9780582004092
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 440-446) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Northern Europe, Eastern Europe: Some Historical and Contemporary Perspectives -- Pt. 1. The Age of Empire. 1. Sturm und Drang: The Baltic in an Age of Revolution, 1772-1815. 2. The Baltic in 1800. 3. States and Unions: 1815 to the Revolutions of 1848. 4. The Era of Nationalism. 5. Society in an Era of Change. 6. The Age of Imperialism, 1871-1905. 7. Fin-de-siecle. 8. The End of Empire: Russia in Revolution, 1905-1917 -- Pt. 2. Nations and States. 9. The New Order. 10. The Impact of Change, c. 1870-1940. 11. The Interwar Years. 12. The Tragic Decade: 1939-1950. 13. Affluence and Welfare: the Nordic States since the War. 14. A Baltic Renascence?
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Recent dramatic changes in eastern Europe, and its moves towards closer integration with the west, have drawn increasing international attention towards the continent's northern periphery - the Baltic, Europe's 'other inland sea', and its neighbouring states. Will the Scandinavian countries act in unison in their relationship with the European Union, or will regional and national interest divide them, as often before? How will the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia face up to the challenge of renewed independence? What role will Russia play on her northwestern doorstep? David Kirby offers a historical perspective on these and other contemporary questions in this eagerly awaited sequel to his earlier survey of Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period, 1492-1772. He gives an analytical account - from the Napoleonic Wars to the collapse of the Soviet Union - of the major events that have shaped the nations on Europe's northern edge; and examines in detail the ways in which their peoples have responded to the immense social, economic, religious and political changes of the last two centuries. He pays particular attention to the history of the region in the nineteenth century, which is much less well covered in English than the comparatively familiar developments of our own time. He is particularly concerned with the nineteenth-century transition from an agrarian social order that was patriarchal and 'controlled' to the 'open' society of modern times. Even in the twentieth century, however, his breadth of treatment (which is regional rather than national throughout) provides many fresh perspectives and unexpected insights on events and processes that we are used to perceiving from quite different standpoints. A number of core concerns run through the entire book. They include: rural society; social welfare; religious and secular activism; and, above all, the many facets of national identity, from the early efforts of German-speaking clergymen to improve the status of the Estonian language, and hence raise the self-esteem of the recently emancipated peasantry, to the 'singing revolution' of the late 1980s. The new volume shares the characteristics of its distinguished predecessor - wide geographical and chronological spans; expert mingling of political, social and economic history; and David Kirby's ability to keep the separate national threads of his account from tangling as he weaves them into the broad regional picture that is his main concern. This is a masterly study of a region that is far from peripheral politically to the post-Soviet world.
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Analyse comparative.
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Europe, Northern-- History.
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Histoire.
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Geschichte 1772-1993.
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Baltic States, History.
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Baltic States, History.
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Baltic States.
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Baltikum
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Europe, Baltic States, History.
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Pays baltes.
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| Dewey Classification
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947/.407
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947.907
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DK502.7.K57 1995
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15.62bcl
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15.70bcl
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15.73bcl
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7,44ssgn
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947.4
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