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A LITMUS TEST CASE OF MODERNITY
EXAMINING MODERN SENSIBILITIES AND THE PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE BALTIC STATES AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY |
| By: |
Leonidas Donskis (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£82.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3034303351 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783034303354 |
| Publisher: |
PETER LANG AG, INTERNATIONALER VERLAG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN |
| Pub. date: |
23 October, 2009 |
| Series: |
Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe 5 |
| Pages: |
314 |
| Synopsis: |
This volume offers the insights of Baltic and Western European scholars into present socioeconomic, migration, identity, gender, race, media, and historical memory issues in the Baltic States. The book attempts to show the intensity and depth of social, economic and cultural change in the Baltic region. It throws light on why and how three small countries have become a litmus test case of modernity and its sensibilities, stretching from authoritarian and totalitarian past to liberal-democratic present. An historic jump from the Soviet Union to the European Union was accompanied by a dramatic struggle of the Baltic States for their inalienable right to return to the political map of the world. The Baltic States allow us a glimpse of the twentieth century history better than anything else. This interdisciplinary volume, by virtue of different perspectives employed by political scientists, gender and race scholars, communication and journalism researchers, linguists, and anthropologists will enable a readership to get the first-hand knowledge about an unprecedented social and political change that took place in the Baltic States over the past nineteen years. In addition, the book allows a point of departure into some historical memory clashes, controversies, and moral and political debates over the past and its impact on the present. |
| Publication: |
Switzerland |
| Imprint: |
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
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Returnable |
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