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Lädt ... Geschichte der Ostsee : Handel und Kulturenvon Michael North
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I really wanted to like this book. I really did. The topic sounded both unfairly neglected and potentially fascinating. But while the book is incredibly detailed, and probably the most informative book on the subject I've ever seen, it's also the driest and least exciting popular history I've ever read. Mr. North seems to provide readers with every single important name, date, event, and place relevant to the history of the Baltic region. But that's all he gives his readers. He doesn't provide any informative descriptions of people or places named, or any descriptions of the battles that are only identified by name yet seem to have altered the course of kings, countries, and alliances. And the sparse maps included provide little information on the ever-changing areas of interest or control on the part of various city-states, countries, and monarchs. In sum, Mr. North's book contains everything you need to pass a test on the region without helping you understand or relate to the people and events it covers. And without making you to care about any of it. Mr. North should be commended on his research and obvious knowledge of the region and its history. But I wish this book had been written by someone like John Julius Norwich instead, who understands how to make sweeping histories compelling. I hope that Mr. North, or someone else, someday aggressively revises this book by adding copious illustrations, biographic information about the people and places mentioned, and interesting anecdotes as to them all. It would probably be a two-volume work, but it could be thrilling rather than sleep-inducing. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Ausgangspunkt dieses Kompendiums über die Geschichte des Ostseeraums von O. North, Professor für Allgemeine Geschichte an der Universität Greifswald, ist der Raum als ein nicht mehr vorgegebener, sondern von Akteuren konstruierter. Wandel sowie Pluralität des Raumes, der Natur-, Geschichts-, Kommunikations- oder auch Erinnerungsraum sein kann, stehen im Mittelpunkt des Interesses. Daher bezieht North neben der Ereignis- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte auch in großem Umfang die kulturelle Entwicklung (Architektur, Kunst, Musik, Literatur) in den Ostseeanrainerstaaten mit ein und unterscheidet sich hierin von Wolfgang Froese, der den Schwerpunkt auf die Ereignisgeschichte legte (vgl. W. Froese: "Geschichte der Ostsee", BA 4/03). Während Froese auch ein Kapitel über die Frühzeit bietet, berichtet North von der Wikingerzeit bis zur EU-Ostseeraum-Strategie. Das ausführliche Literaturverzeichnis erleichtert die Vertiefung einzelner Aspekte. Leider enthält der Band nur wenig Illustrationen und Karten. Für ein breites Publikum ist Froese vorzuziehen, für ein akademisches Publikum North. (3) (Claudia Bußjäger)
Das umfassende Kompendium zur Geschichte des Ostseeraums von der Wikingerzeit bis ins 21. Jahrhundert behandelt die politische, wirtschaftliche sowie kulturelle Entwicklung der Ostseeanrainerstaaten. (Claudia Bußjäger) Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Obviously, if you have a book focussed on a sea, you have to decide how far inland you should allow yourself to go: North's approach seems to be to try to avoid writing a complete history of every country with a Baltic coastline, but to fill in enough context that we will know where we are. And he obviously assumes that we will be reasonably familiar with at least German and Russian history. We do get more background detail on Sweden, Denmark and the Baltic States. But in a book that covers the Thirty Years War in a couple of paragraphs, you need to stay pretty alert: blink and you will miss something vital... But it did tell me a lot of stuff I didn't know, or couldn't have put properly in context, so I found it very useful.
If I'd looked a little more carefully before buying this book, I'd have realised that Professor North originally wrote it in German, and I'd at least have been able to spare myself the rather pedestrian translation. ( )