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Table of Contents
List of Figures |
Introduction |
Background and Discussion |
Primary Sources |
Secondary Sources |
Chapter 1: A Brief Account of Formative Historical Events That Shaped Social and Agrarian Relations Until the Mid-Eighteenth Century in Livonia |
Livonia and the Latvians |
The Baltic Crusades: The German Colonization of Livonia |
Christianization of the Baltic Lands |
German Colonization: Positive and Negative Aspects |
The Rise and Demise of the Livonian Crusader State and the Agrarian Outcome |
The Role of the Christian Latvian Church in the Facilitation of Early National and Cultural Identity in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries |
Pietismus and the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine in Livonia |
The Dichotomization of Livonian Society: The Livonian Ständegesellschaft in the Eighteenth Century |
The Consequences of the Great Northern War |
The Adels-Matrikel of 1727 |