Edited by Andrew Andersen

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BALTIC NATIONS

BALTIC GERMAN NOBILITY:

HERALDIC EXCURSUS

ETHNIC MINORITIES

OF LATVIA:

HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

CONTENTS

	Pre-history of the area By Marisa Hougardy
ca 793 - 1066	Viking age By Joshua Leggett
ca 1160 - 1450	The Baltic Crusade By Ruth Williamson
ca 1150 - 1800	The Hanseatic League in the Eastern Baltic By Jennifer Mills
	The Hanseatic League and its Decline By Rainer Postel
1202 - 1570	The Livonian Confederation By Katy Miller-Korpi
1253 - 1795	The Grand Duchy of Lithuania By Cheryl Renshaw
1561 - 1721	The Swedish Empire and the Baltic Nations By Erik Esvelt
ca 1325 - 1863	The Polish Empire and the Baltic Nations By Kathy McDonough
1520 - 1583	Protestant Reformation in the Baltic By Rachelle Harrison
1558 - 1580	The Livonian War By Kara Broughton
1600 - 1629	Polish-Swedish Wars By Ray S.A. Jasinski
1655 - 1660	Polish-Swedish War (The Deluge) By Peter K. Gessner
1561 - 1795	The Duchy of Courland By Ray A. Ceaser
1700 - 1721	The Great Northern War By Frank Smitha
1721 - 1917	The Russian Empire and the Baltic Nations By Andrew Garten
1914 - 1918	The Baltic Region During World War I By Erin Getmann
1918 - 1920	Freikorps im Baltikum (Baltische Landswehr) By Shawn Bohannon
1918 - 1920	Estonia and Latvia: The War of Liberation By Andrew Andersen

1920	Polish-Lithuanian Conflict (1920) By Andrew Andersen

1918 - 1940	The Baltic Nations Between the World Wars By Janis Elksnitis
1939 - 1945	The Baltic Region During World War II By Mike Hurtado
1940 - 1945	Fighting for the Allies under Latvian Flag By Andrew Andersen
1941 - 1945	The Baltic Legionnaires By Andrew Andersen
1940 - 1991	The Baltic Republics of the Soviet Union By Joseph Greer
1949	Latvians in the French Foreign Legion By Bruno Plume
1990 - 1991	Standoff for Freedom in Lithuania & Latvia By Bictors Daugmalis, Laura Sheeter and Rokas Tracevskis
1991 - present	Recent North European Relations By Brian Hodges
	Intra-Ethnic Differentiation among Latvians By Mari-Ann Herloff-Mortensen

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RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

Bremmer, Jan & Taras, Ray:  

New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations,

CambridgeUniversity Press, 1997

The Black Book of Communism, Harward University Press,  2000

Clemens, Walter C.:

The Baltic Transformed (New International Relations of Europe)

Rowman & Littlefield, 2000

Eksteins, Modris:  

Walking Since Daybreak,

Key Porter Books, 1999

Kruus, H.:
Histoire de l'Estonie,

Payot, 1935