German Monuments in the Baltic Heimat? A Historiography of Heritage in the "Long Nineteenth Century"
Häftad bok. Estonian Academy of Arts. 2020. 363 sidor.
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Utgiven av Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, 2020, som vol. 30 i serien Dissertationes Academiae Artium Estoniae.
In Estonian humanities the Baltic Germans (Deutschbalten) are mostly addressed as a historical phenomenon, despite the fact that the architecture that they left behind from medieval and later times still continues to shape the local environment of the present. How did the Baltic Germans project the image they held of their past onto their goals for the present and the future? How did that path relate to the culture of the Germans living elsewhere in Eastern Europe? What new research prospects are there available to be taken up today? This transdisciplinary and transnational dissertation looks at the representations of Baltic German identity that expressed themselves in art historiography and in heritage preservation from late eighteenth century until the interwar era.
