Michael North (2) (1954–)
Autor(a) de The Baltic: A History
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About the Author
Michael North is Professor and Chair of Modern History at the University of Greifswald, Germany.
Obras de Michael North
"Material delight and the joy of living" : cultural consumption in the Age of Enlightenment in Germany (2003) 5 cópias
From the North Sea to the Baltic: Essays in Commercial, Monetary and Agrarian History, 1500-1800 (Variorum Collected… (1996) 4 cópias
Das Goldene Zeitalter : Kunst und Kommerz in der niederländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts (2001) 3 cópias
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1954-05-29
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Germany
- Local de nascimento
- Gießen, Germany
- Ocupação
- historian
Professor and Chair of Modern History - Organizações
- University of Greifswald
Membros
Resenhas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 17
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 193
- Popularidade
- #113,337
- Avaliação
- 3.2
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 103
- Idiomas
- 3
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.… (mais)