{"product_id":"a-concise-history-of-the-baltic-states","title":"A Concise History of the Baltic States","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\nDimensions: 140 x 216 x 28\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor: Andrejs Plakans\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN: 9780521541558\u003cbr\u003e\nFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 492\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bookhero.ae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67750497910937,"sku":"8RD9780521541558","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/5696\/6297\/files\/A_Concise_History_of_the_Baltic_States_Andrejs_Plakans.jpg?v=1792301338","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.ae\/products\/a-concise-history-of-the-baltic-states","provider":"Dubai - Buy Used\/Second-Hand Books - BookHero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}