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The Baltic Story A Thousand - Year History Of Its Lands Sea And Peoples
The Baltic Story A Thousand - Year History Of Its Lands Sea And Peoples
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Description: Focusing on key events and episodes this book shows the ties of blood and commerce that have bound the different lands that lie today in Sweden Finland Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Western Russia Belarus and Eastern Germany. This story encompasses the foundation rise and fall of some of Europe's greatest dynasties and cities including St. Petersberg Stockholm Copenhagen Warsaw and Berlin. From the growth of monarchical power and the rise of autocracy it then looks at the period of the Enlightenment in particular at the achievements of Frederick II of Prussia and Catherine II. It considers the problems facing Poland's last king and the events that ended with the country's collapse. And it shows how new Enlightenment thinking influenced Denmark and Sweden and rocked the monarchies. It shows the threat of Napoloeon's France to the Baltic and the impact of both World War I and the Russian Revolution which led to the re - shaping and establishing of states.
Title: The Baltic Story A Thousand - Year History Of Its Lands Sea And Peoples
Author(s): Boggis - Rolfe Caroline
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Barcode: 9781398103306
Pages: 464 Pages, 16 Plates, Color
Publication Date: 12/15/2020
Category: European History
Description: Focusing on key events and episodes this book shows the ties of blood and commerce that have bound the different lands that lie today in Sweden Finland Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Western Russia Belarus and Eastern Germany. This story encompasses the foundation rise and fall of some of Europe's greatest dynasties and cities including St. Petersberg Stockholm Copenhagen Warsaw and Berlin. From the growth of monarchical power and the rise of autocracy it then looks at the period of the Enlightenment in particular at the achievements of Frederick II of Prussia and Catherine II. It considers the problems facing Poland's last king and the events that ended with the country's collapse. And it shows how new Enlightenment thinking influenced Denmark and Sweden and rocked the monarchies. It shows the threat of Napoloeon's France to the Baltic and the impact of both World War I and the Russian Revolution which led to the re - shaping and establishing of states.
Title: The Baltic Story A Thousand - Year History Of Its Lands Sea And Peoples
Author(s): Boggis - Rolfe Caroline
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Barcode: 9781398103306
Pages: 464 Pages, 16 Plates, Color
Publication Date: 12/15/2020
Category: European History