Ostseeprovinzen, Baltische Staaten und das Nationale
Author: Norbert Angermann
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9783825890865
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The Matica and Beyond
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-05-06
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9004425381
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Matica and Beyond is a comparative study of the cultural associations established to further national movements in nineteenth-century Europe by publishing literary and scientific texts in the national language.
Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State
Author: David J. Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-23
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1136309144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores a largely forgotten legacy of multicultural political thought and practice from within Eastern Europe and examines its relevance to post-Cold War debates on state and nationhood. Featuring a Preface by former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke, it weaves theory and practice to challenge established understandings of the nation state. Eastern Europe is still too often viewed through the prism of ethnic conflict, which overlooks the region’s positive contribution to modern debates on the political management of ethno-cultural diversity, and towards the construction of a united Europe ‘beyond the nation-state’. Based on extensive archival research in Estonia, Latvia, Germany, Russia, as well as the League of Nations Archive in Geneva, this book explores this neglected multicultural legacy and assesses its significance in the post-Cold War era, which has seen the reappearance of national cultural autonomy laws in several states of Eastern Europe. Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State is invaluable reading for students and scholars of political science, history, sociology and European studies, and also for policy makers and others interested in minority rights and ethnic conflict regulation.
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe
Author: Balázs Trencsényi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 696
ISBN-13: 0198737149
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Literary History and Popular Enlightenment in Latvian Culture
Author: Pauls Daija
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017-05-11
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1443892556
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Enlightenment of peasants, an 18th-century phenomenon that originated from an interest in common people and ideas of about the emancipation of the lower classes, had a crucial impact on creating Latvian secular literary culture. When Baltic German intellectuals, inspired by the Popular Enlightenment in German-speaking countries, undertook the task to educate Latvian peasants through books, they also laid the foundation for the future emancipation of Latvian culture. By exploring the nature of book production and changing images of peasants in Livonia and Courland in the second part of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, this book offers insights into the complex historical relationship between Latvians and Baltic Germans and the regional specifics of the Baltic Enlightenment.
A History of the Baltic States
Author: Andres Kasekamp
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-10-26
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 113757366X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Novels, Histories, Novel Nations
Author: Linda Kaljundi
Publisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Published: 2015-05-13
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9522227463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume addresses the prominent, and in many ways highly similar, role that historical fiction has played in the formation of the two neighbouring 'young nations', Finland and Estonia. It gives a multi-sided overview of the function of the historical novel during different periods of Finnish and Estonian history from the 1800s until the present day, and it provides detailed close-readings of selected authors and literary trends in their social, political and cultural contexts. This book addresses nineteenth-century 'fictional foundations', historical fiction of the new nation states in the interwar period as well as post-Second World War Soviet Estonian novels and modern historiographic metafiction.
Lay Prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550–1700)
Author: Jürgen Beyer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-03-27
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 900431816X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lay prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550–1700) is the first transnational study of the phenomenon of angelic apparitions in all Lutheran cultures of early modern Europe. Jürgen Beyer provides evidence for more than 350 cases and analyses the material in various ways: tracing the medieval origins, studying the spread of news about prophets, looking at the performances legitimising their calling, noting their comments on local politics, following the theological debates about prophets, and interpreting the early modern notions of holiness within which prophets operated. A full chronology and bibliography of all cases concludes the volume. Beyer demonstrates that lay prophets were an accepted part of Lutheran culture and places them in their social, political and confessional contexts.
The Shaken Lands
Author: Tomas Balkelis
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Published: 2023-04-25
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
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Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th-20th Centuries)
Author: Cordelia Heß
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-04-22
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 311135119X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, Finland, Baltic countries, Northern Germany and North-Western Russia. Authors examine the processes of how medieval saints and heroes have been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, used, and reflected during modernity, and by whom. The focus of the anthology is on "doing" memory as a practice that commemorated the past and shaped spaces and identities in the present. It approaches the memory of saints and heroes, for example, Swedish Saints Birgitta and Eric, Danish Saint Knud, Kyivan Princess Olga, Swedish military leader in Finland Tyrgils Knutsson, Liv/Latvian warrior Imanta and Holsatian count Gerhard III as a shared heritage and as part of national, local and popular culture. The anthology contributes to the understanding of the Baltic Sea region through the study of saints, cults and heroic representations in the longue durée between the Middle Ages and modernity. It also adds nuance to the use of popular concepts of memory studies, particularly an update of Pierre Nora's lieux de mémoire.
