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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.
Baltic States --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Civilization. --- 947.9 --- -Baltic States --- -Baltic Republics --- Baltics (States) --- History --- Politics and government --- Civilization --- -History --- History of Eastern Europe --- Baltic Area --- Pays baltes --- Histoire
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#SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:39A72 --- #SBIB:316.356.2H1120 --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Etnografie: Europa --- Gezinssociologie: historische studies over het gezin voor 1900 --- Kinship --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- History --- Europe --- Social life and customs. --- -History --- Social life and customs --- History. --- Kinship - History --- Kinship - Europe - History --- Europe - Social life and customs --- EUROPE --- FAMILLES --- ANTHROPOLOGIE DEMOGRAPHIQUE --- CONDITIONS SOCIALES --- RECHERCHE
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The book is a group biography of the 175,000+ Latvians who fled their homeland during the final year of World War II (1944-45), lived until 1951 as refugees in Sweden and Germany, and then dispersed to other countries throughout the world. The post-1945 history of these Latvians includes a description of their lives in 'displaced person' camps in post-war Germany, dispersion in the 1949-1951 years, resettlement in new host countries in Europe and overseas, strategies of adaptation to the new circumstances, organizational efforts, acculturation and assimilation, measures of cultural and linguistic preservation, renewal of contacts with the old homeland, generational change and disagreements, political mobilization, changes in personal and group identity, and, after 1991, the inclusion by the Latvian government of the descendants of this post-war population into a formally designated 'Latvian diaspora' (Diaspora Law, 2019).
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"Contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and a dictionary section with more than 500 cross-referenced entries on aspects of Latvia."--Provided by publisher.
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