1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910494582203321

Titolo

Latvia--a work in progress? : 100 years of state- and nation-building / / David J. Smith (ed.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart : , : Ibidem-Verlag, , [2017]

©2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 pages)

Collana

Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society

Disciplina

947.96084

Soggetti

Nation-building - Latvia - History - 20th century

Nation-building - Latvia - History - 21st century

Electronic books.

Latvia Politics and government 20th century Congresses

Latvia Politics and government 21st century Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from a workshop held in December 2013 in Uppsala.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

State, nation, and sovereignty amidst uncertainty and change: turning points and continuities in Latvian society and polity / David J. Smith -- Death and transfiguration: reflections on World War I and the birth of the Latvian state / Andrejs Plakans -- Latvians as a civic nation: the interwar experiment / Marina Germane -- Why remember Paul Schiemann? / David J. Smith -- The return of the gods?: authoritarian culture and neo-paganism in interwar Latvia, 1934-1940 / Deniss Hanovs and Valdis Tēraudkalns -- "Come on Latvians, join the party--we'll forgive you everything": ideological struggle during the national communist affair, summer 1959 / Geoffrey Swain -- "At first we missed our Latvia ...": attitudes towards Latvian state during the Soviet period / Irēna Saleniece -- Latvians in exile and the idea of the Latvian state / Ieva Zake -- International reactions to the independence of the Baltic states: the French example, 1989-1991 / Una Bergmane -- "You are not the people": revisiting citizenship and geopolitics / Li Bennich-Björkman -- Post-Soviet Latvia: a consolidated democracy in the third decade of independence? / Geoffrey Pridham -- The Europeanisation of Latvia's public policy: the case of foreign aid policy, 2004-2010 /



Pēteris Timofejevs Henriksson -- Paradoxes of power: gender, work, and family in the new Europe / Daina S. Eglitis -- Reflections on the political economy of the Latvian state since 1991: the role of external goals: what to do now that externally defined goals have been realised? / Alfs Vanags -- The unbearable myth of convergence: episodes in the economic development of Latvia / Aldis Purs -- The roots of radicalism: persistent problems of class and ethnicity in Latvia's politics / Matthew Kott.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996384786403316

Autore

Mather Cotton <1663-1728.>

Titolo

Memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions [[electronic resource] ] : a faithful account of many wonderful and surprising things that have befallen several bewitched and possesed person in New-England, particularly a narrative of the marvellous trouble and releef experienced by a pious family in Boston, very lately and sadly molested with evil spirits : whereunto is added a discourse delivered unto a congregation in Boston on the occasion of that illustrious providence : as also a discourse delivered unto the same congregation on the occasion of an horrible self-murder committed in the town : with an appendix in vindication of a chapter in a late book of remarkable providences from the calumnies of a Quaker at Pen-silvania / / written by Cotton Mather ... and recommended by the ministers of Boston and Charleston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Printed at Boston in N. England, : by R.P., 1689, sold by Joseph Brunning ..., [1689]

Descrizione fisica

[10], 75, 21, 41, 14 p

Soggetti

Witchcraft - New England

Supernatural

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A discourse on the power and malice of the devils" is on the 21 p. numbering.

"A discourse on witchcraft" is on the 41 p. numbering.

Appendix is on the 14 p. at the end.

Imperfect: pages are blurred, cropped, stained with print show-



through, and some loss of print.

Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0062