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 the world's major waterways. The
Baltic lands have been populated since prehistory by diverse
linguistic groups: Balts, Slavs, Germans, and Finns. North traces
how the various tribes, peoples, and states of the region have
lived in peace and at war, as both global powers and pawns of
foreign regimes, and as exceptionally creative interpreters of
cultural movements from Christianity to Romanticism and Modernism.
He examines the golden age of the Vikings, the Hanseatic League,
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and Peter the Great, and looks at the
hard choices people had to make in the twentieth century as
fascists, communists, and liberal democrats played out their
ambitions on the region's doorstep. With its vigorous trade in
furs, fish, timber, amber, and grain and its strategic position as
a thruway for oil and natural gas, the Baltic has been-and
remains-one of the great economic and cultural crossroads of the
world.
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