Literature of Revolution in the Newspaper of the Duchy of Courland: Mitauische Zeitung (1789–1795) [PDF]
Acta Historica TallinnensiaThe break in intelligibility caused by exceptional events encourages interpretation, attempts at explanation, the search for causes, and the projection of consequences, thus creating relevant literature.
Simona Sofija Valke
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Colonial Reality and Postcolonial Instrumentalization of the Overseas Expansion of the Duchy of Courland [PDF]
Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Istoriya, 2020 The article is devoted to the theoretical understanding of the history of colonial policy of the Duchy of Courland in 1645–1731 through the prism of the phenomenon of a “colonial reality” based on Fernand Braudel’s concept of three levels of historical time and Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis.
Yevstratyev, Oleg I. +3 more
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Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2017 There was no ideal or typical way of establishing the Reformation in Europe, while Church reform in East Central Europe cannot be attributed solely to the influence of the ideas from Wittenberg.
Ulrich Schoenborn
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The Specificity of the Formation of the Duchies of Courland and Semigallia in the Confessional Era [PDF]
Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Istoriya, 2018 The article examines the specific character of the process of secularization of the Order’s possessions in the Baltic region. It explores the formation of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia as a result of secularization of possessions of the Livonian
Dmitriy Weber
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The Duchy of Courland’s Colonial Networks and Encounters from the Baltic to the Atlantic: 1638-1698 [PDF]
Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls, 2022 The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a vassal to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and constrained at the eastern edge of the Baltic Sea, was an unlikely candidate for colonial expansion. Yet, in the mid- to late seventeenth century, the ambitions of the dukes, in particular Duke Jakob Kettler (reigned 1642-1682), provided it with a brief colonial ...
Ozola, Silvija
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Otto Hermann von der Howen. From Courland Patriot to Merciless Henchman of Russian Interests in the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia [PDF]
, 2021 The article describes the evolution of political activities of Otto Hermann von der Howen (1740–1806). He was one of the most influential politicians in the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia in the last decades of the state’s existence. When beginning his
Janicki, Arkadiusz
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Chronological Dating of the Duchy of Courland’s Colonial Policy
Journal of the Institute of Latvian History, 2018 exaly +2 more sources
The comprehensive publication on the Courland campaign and the Battle of Mūrmuiža
Akadēmiskā Dzīve, 2022 This review is dedicated to Vladimir Velikanov and Sergei Mechnev's book “Kurlandskaya operatsiya 1705–1706 gg. i srazhenie pri Gemauertgofe” (published in Moscow in 2016), which is a relatively unique and, to date, the most comprehensive work on ...
Mikus Žagata
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Military actions on the border between the Duchy of Courland and Lithuania at the beginning of the Great Northern War (september 1701-may 1703) [PDF]
, 2022 Straipsnyje aptariami Didžiojo Šiaurės karo (1700–1721) įvykiai, susiję su Kuršo kunigaikštyste. Daugiausia dėmesio skirta karo veiksmams konkrečiame regione – Kuršo kunigaikštystės ir Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės pasienyje, vykusiems nuo švedų ...
Jakovļeva, Mārīte +1 more
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Archives of Lithuanian Latvian Families: the Case of the Dundurnieki Starkus
Acta Humanitarica Academiae Saulensis, 2023 The article presents the Starkus (Latvian: Starks) family of farmers from the Daunorava (Latvian: Dundurmuiža, German: Donnerhof) Latvian dundurnieki community in Bertaučiai Village, Joniškis Parish, and the research sources on the subject matter.
Ernestas Vasiliauskas
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