A Plakans, Andrejs creator author. text enk 2011 monographic eng 1 online resource (xvi, 472 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. Peoples of the eastern Baltic littoral -- New order, 1200-1500 -- New order reconfigured, 1500-1710 -- Installing hegemony: the littoral and tsarist Russia, 1710-1800 -- Reforming and controlling the Baltic littoral, 1800-1855 -- Five decades of transformations, 1855-1905 -- Statehood in troubled times, 1905-1940 -- Return of empires, 1940-1991 -- Reentering Europe, 1991- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). eb----- Baltic States History Baltic States Politics and government Baltic States Civilization DK502.7 .P53 2011 947.9 9780511975370 (ebook) https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511975370 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511975370 UkCbUP 141103 20240716174241.0 CR9780511975370 eng