The house of hemp and butter : a history of old Riga /

The house of hemp and butter : a history of old Riga /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	O'Connor, Kevin, 1967- author.
Imprint:	Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xv, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
Subject:	Rīga (Latvia) -- History. Latvia -- Rīga. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12577929

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ISBN:	9781501747687 1501747681 9781501747694 9781501747700
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-310) and index.
Summary:	"Riga was an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state. Beginning in the twelfth century with the arrival to the eastern Baltic of German priests, traders, and knights, who conquered and converted the indigenous tribes and assumed mastery over their lands, the book follows the evolution of the city to 1710 with an account of a war that was accompanied by mass starvation, epidemic, and a flood that devastated the city"--
Other form:	Online version: O'Connor, Kevin, 1967- House of hemp and butter Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019. 9781501747694
Standard no.:	40029519527

Table of Contents:

Genesis : Riga before Riga
Watering the nations : Riga and the northern crusades
Free air in the Hanse city
Master of Riga : the archbishop, the order, and the Rath
Old knights and New teachings : the Reformation in Riga
Upheavals : the Livonian War and the Polish interlude
Star city : the Swedish century
"This accursed place" : the Great Northern War.