{"product_id":"a-concise-history-of-the-baltic-states-9780521541558","title":"A Concise History of the Baltic States","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Andrejs Plakans\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Baltic States\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 the first 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 a 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45112762728599,"sku":"9780521541558","price":2557.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780521541558.webp?v=1767267650","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-concise-history-of-the-baltic-states-9780521541558","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}