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024 7 _a10.1515/9781501747700
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501747700
035 _a(DE-B1597)527505
035 _a(OCoLC)1104855031
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 0 0 _aDK504.935
050 4 _aDK504.935
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082 0 4 _a947.96
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aO'Connor, Kevin C.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe House of Hemp and Butter :
_bA History of Old Riga /
_cKevin C. O'Connor.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (342 p.) :
_b13 b&w halftones
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aNIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tChapter Overview --
_tDramatis Personae --
_tNoteworthy Places and Buildings --
_tIntroduction --
_tCHAPTER 1. Genesis: Riga before Riga --
_tCHAPTER 2. Watering the Nations: Riga and the Northern Crusades --
_tCHAPTER 3. Free Air in the Hanse City --
_tCHAPTER 4. Master of Riga: The Archbishop, the Order, and the Rath --
_tCHAPTER 5. Old Knights and New Teachings: The Reformation in Riga --
_tCHAPTER 6. Upheavals: The Livonian War and the Polish Interlude --
_tCHAPTER 7. Star City: The Swedish Century --
_tCHAPTER 8. "This Accursed Place": The Great Northern War --
_tEpilogue --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aFounded as an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state, Riga was Old Livonia's greatest city and its indispensable port. Because the city was situated in what was initially remote and inhospitable territory, surrounded by pagans and coveted by regional powers like Poland, Sweden, and Muscovy, it was also a fortress encased by a wall.The House of Hemp and Butter begins in the twelfth century with the arrival to the eastern Baltic of German priests, traders, and knights, who conquered and converted the indigenous tribes and assumed mastery over their lands. It ends in 1710 with an account of the greatest war Livonia had ever seen, one that was accompanied by mass starvation, a terrible epidemic, and a flood of nearly Biblical proportions that devastated the city and left its survivors in misery.Readers will learn about Riga's people-merchants and clerics, craftsmen and builders, porters and day laborers-about its structures and spaces, its internal conflicts and its unrelenting struggle to maintain its independence against outside threats. The House of Hemp and Butter is an indispensable guide to a quintessentially European city located in one of the continent's more remote corners.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 4 _aHistory.
650 4 _aMedieval & Renaissance Studies.
650 4 _aSoviet & East European History.
650 4 _aUrban Studies.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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653 _aMedieval history, Early Modern history, urban studies, Russian history, Baltic studies.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501747700?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501747700
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