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The Estonians; The long road to independence
The book presents the history of Estonia in easily readable form and with compassion for the people whose lives were affected by the events that occurred in the Baltic region. The prolonged occupation of the Baltic region by different European nations not only caused great hardships for the Estonian people, but it also integrated them into the western European cultural community. In that sense, the history of Estonia has had a happy ending. After seven centuries of domination by foreign powers, the people of Estonia are now free, they are well educated, they are creative, they are hard-working, and they are patriotic. The Republic of Estonia has earned the respect and admiration of the people of the world and deserves to be recognized as a modern and successful nation.
Art of the Baltics
The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, 1956-1986, which comprises nearly twenty thousand works, is part of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Information Wars in the Baltic States
This edited volume, featuring accomplished scholars, is about the information wars in the Baltic states, a battle that pits Russia against the West with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as sites of contention for great power politics. Chapters address responses from titular populations, local Russian speakers, national governments, activists, journalists, and NATO, as well as the impact of Russian foreign policy on media.
Kalevipoeg Studies
The poem Kalevipoeg, over 19,000 lines in length, was composed by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803–1882) on the basis on folklore material. It was published in an Estonian-German bilingual edition in six instalments between 1857 and 1861; it went on to become the Estonian national epic. This first English-language monograph on the Kalevipoeg sheds light on various aspects of the emergence, creation and reception of the text. The first chapter sketches the objectives of the book and gives a short summary of the contents of the twenty tales of the epic, while the second chapter treats the significance of the epic against the cultural background of nineteenth-century Estonia. The third cha...
Medien der Aufklärung – Aufklärung der Medien
Die Aufklärung als Epoche und Denkbewegung ist eng an einen neuen Gebrauch der Medien gebunden. Erwerb, Vermittlung und Vertrieb von Wissen mögen zunächst nur das Privileg weniger gelehrter Köpfe gewesen sein, im Kern intendierte die Aufklärung jedoch eine Öffnung der respublica litteraria für alle Menschen. Diese Ausformung der Medien fand nicht nur in den Zentren der Aufklärung statt, sondern auch in deren Peripherien, wie etwa dem Baltikum. Auch dort entstanden und etablierten sich Medien der Aufklärung. Welches waren die wirkmächtigsten Medienpraktiken? Wer waren die wichtigsten Träger und an wen richtete sich die Aufklärung in Estland, Livland und Kurland? Welche Funktionen hatten die unterschiedlichen Sprachen? Das Buch stellt das Baltikum als eine exemplarische europäische Aufklärungsregion vor und zeigt durch verschiedene disziplinäre Zugriffe (Germanistik, Geschichte, Komparatistik, Kunstgeschichte, Theologie) die Wirksamkeit aufklärerischer Medienformate in dieser Region.
