Gerald Stone

Slav Outposts in Central European History (eBook, ePUB)

The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While many think of European history in terms of the major states that today make up the map of Europe, this approach tends to overlook submerged nations like the Wends, the westernmost Slavs who once inhabited the lands which later became East Germany and Western Poland. This book examines the decline and gradual erosion of the Wends from the time when they occupied all the land between the River Elbe and the River Vistula around 800 AD to the present, where they still survive in tiny enclaves south of Berlin (the Wends and Sorbs) and west of Danzig (the Kashubs).

Slav Outposts in Central European History - which also includes numerous images and maps - puts the story of the Wends, the Sorbs and the Kashubs in a wider European context in order to further sophisticate our understanding of how ethnic groups, societies, confessions and states have flourished or floundered in the region. It is an important book for all students and scholars of central European history and the history of European peoples and states more generally.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472592125
• Artikelnr.: 44364103

Autorenporträt

Gerald Stone FBA is Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College and Faculty Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of The Smallest Slavonic Nation: The Sorbs of Lusatia, The Russian Language since the Revolution and numerous articles on aspects of Wendish culture.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Maps Introduction 1. Subjugation, 800
1200 2. Co
existence and Erosion, 1200
1500 3. Reformation, 1500
1600 4. Confessions, 1600
1700 5. From Pietism to Enlightenment, 1700
1800 6. Awakening, 1800
1900 7. Self
Determination, 1900
1945 8. From Liberation (1945) to European Union (1990) References Index