Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Baltic States

This book argues that - contrary to contemporary Lithuanian nationalist rhetoric - Lithuanian nationalism was modern and socially constructed in the period from the emergence of the Lithuanian national movement in the late nineteenth century to the birth of an independent state in 1918. The book brings into sharp focus those aspects of the history of Lithuania that earlier commentators had not systematically explored: it shows how, in this period, the nascent political elite fashioned its own and the emerging nation's identity. Moreover, factors such as the elite's social isolation,...

This book takes a comprehensive approach to security in the Nordic-Baltic region, studying how this region is affected by developments in the international system.

The advent of the new millennium coincided with the return of the High North to the world stage. A number of factors have contributed to the increased international interest for the northern part of Europe: climate change resulting in ice melting in Greenland and the Arctic, and new resources and shipping routes opening up across the polar basin foremost among them. The world is no longer "unipolar" and not yet "multipolar,"...

More than twenty-five years after the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the nature of the regimes in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989 continues to evade the attempts of political theorists and scholars of post-communism to define and classify them. Drawing on philosophical inquiry, jurisprudential analysis and intellectual history, this book traces the impact of communist ideology and practice on legal thought: from its critical roots in the midst of the nineteenth century to its reactionary stand in the later years of the twentieth. Exploring how the communist experience both in its...

During the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, German universities were at the forefront of scholarship in Oriental studies. Drawing upon a comprehensive survey of thousands of German publications on the Middle East from this period, this book presents a detailed history of the development of Orientalism.

Offering an alternative to the view of Orientalism as a purely intellectual pursuit or solely as a function of politics, this book traces the development of the discipline as a profession. The author discusses the interrelation between research choices and...

Mittelalterliche nordische Rechtsquellen finden sich in dem weiten Bereich von Gronland, Island, den skandinavischen Landern bis nach Finnland und Russland. Ihr Inhalt und ihre Entwicklung werden hier erstmals zusammenfassend dargestellt. Die Aufnahme des Christentums hat diese Rechtsquellen, das Gemeinwesen, das Privatrecht und das tagliche Leben entscheidend verandert: Die Konige verstanden sich jetzt als christliche Streiter und beanspruchten ein eigenes Recht zur Gesetzgebung. Im Strafrecht loste die Taterschuld das Erfolgsprinzip ab, und der Spruch der Geschworenen ersetzte die...