The Baltic
Subtitle: a history
By: Michael North ; translated by Kenneth Kronenberg
Contributors: Kronenberg, Kenneth, 1946- translator
Edition: First Harvard University Press paperback ed.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780674970830
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Commerce; Civilization; History
Other titles: Geschichte der Ostsee
Description: In this overview of the Baltic region from the Vikings to the European Union, Michael North presents the sea and the lands that surround it as a Nordic Mediterranean, a maritime zone of shared influence, with its own distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. Covering over a thousand years in a part of the world where seas have been much more connective than land, The Baltic: A History transforms the way we think about a body of water too often ignored in studies of teh world's major waterways. --Back cover.
Notes: "This book is an updated version of the German edition, originally published as Geschichte der Ostsee, copyright © Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, München 2011."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-395) and index.

Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: trade and cultures; title: Vikings, Slavs, and Balts; title: The Christian mission and the settlement of the land; title: The Hanseatic League and the monarchies; title: The Reformation and the Nordic Renaissance; title: Swedish dominance; title: The rise of Russia; title: Nordic romanticism; title: Revolutions and new states; title: Sovietization versus welfare states; title: Transformation and EU integration; title: Conclusion.