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Slav Outposts in Central European History: The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs

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Description for Slav Outposts in Central European History: The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs Paperback. .
While many think of European history in terms of the major states that today make up the map of Europe, this approach tends to overlook submerged nations like the Wends, the westernmost Slavs who once inhabited the lands which later became East Germany and Western Poland. This book examines the decline and gradual erosion of the Wends from the time when they occupied all the land between the River Elbe and the River Vistula around 800 AD to the present, where they still survive in tiny enclaves south of Berlin (the Wends and Sorbs) and west of Danzig (the Kashubs). ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472592095
SKU
V9781472592095
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About Gerald Stone
Gerald Stone FBA is an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of The Smallest Slavonic Nation: The Sorbs of Lusatia and numerous other books and articles on aspects of the language and culture of the Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs, including an Upper Sorbian-English Dictionary.

Reviews for Slav Outposts in Central European History: The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs
[A] towering achievement in this neglected field ... [Stone's] work patiently and in a detailed manner leads the reader through the history, states, languages and cultures of the Slavic ethnic groups inhabiting present-day northern and eastern Germany and northeastern Poland.
European History Quarterly
There is no other work like this in English ... In this thoroughly researched and ... Read more

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