The Livonian peasantry's long march to emancipation
Subtitle: a study in the Baltic German literary contribution to the nationalization of the Latvians and the issue of serfdom in the 1780s and 1790s
By: Andrew James Blumbergs.
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781604975567
Subjects: Nationalism -- Latvia -- History -- 18th century; Peasantry -- Latvia -- History -- 18th century; Discourse analysis -- Latvia; Livonia -- History; Latvia -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: A brief account of formative historical events that shaped social and agrarian relations up until the mid-eighteenth century in Livonia; title: Part 2: Ideas for social and agrarian reform in Livonia in the second half of the eighteenth century; title: Part 3: The agrarian and social relations discourse in Livonia in the 1780's and 1790s : textual selection, analytical method and textual interpretation; title: Part 4: Modes and means of nationalizing identity : shaping the Latvian nation in the late Enlightenment period.