Book Review: Defining Latvia (2022), edited by Michael Loader, Siobhán Hearne, and Matthew Kott.

“This book emerges from a conference – ‘Latvia at Crossroads: The Centenary of the Latvian State’ – held at Uppsala University in October 2018 to explore new international research about Latvia. Rather than being the central focus of the conference, the centenary of Latvian statehood was utilised as an incentive to look at Latvian history more broadly, with the diversity of papers presented being well represented in this volume. Edited by Michael Loader (University of Glasgow), Siobhán Hearne (Durham University), and Matthew Kott (Uppsala University), it is composed of nine research chapters, in addition to a foreword by Ivars Ījabs, and an introduction by Hearne entitled ‘Latvia and Latvian Identity in Historical Perspective’…“

Read the review on H-Soz-Kult (2024):