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How settlers shaped Eastern Europe and Scandinavia : economic development, regime change, and state formation, 800-1800 / Jonathan Stavnskær Doucette
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stavnskær Doucette, Jonathan, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements. Elements in political economy
- Cambridge elements. Elements in political economy, 2398-4031
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonists--Europe, Eastern--History.
- Colonists.
- Colonists--Scandinavia--History.
- Europe, Eastern--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Scandinavia--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Scandinavia.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Eastern Europe.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026
- Summary:
- "This Element argues that settlers from Western Europe shaped European state formation and transformed the political and economic fate of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia between 800 and 1800. While existing work on European colonization focuses on overseas settlers, and studies of Europe's development tend to concentrate on the continent's western regions, the Element highlights a significant internal wave of settlement from Western to Eastern and Northern Europe. Beginning around 1100 and tapering off after 1400, this settler movement spurred economic development and the spread of local self-government across Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Settlers also provided institutional templates that local rulers adapted in their efforts to build states. These rulers were increasingly compelled to bargain with politically autonomous and large cities. Over time, the emergence of new states in Eastern Europe intensified geopolitical competition across the continent"-- Cambridge Core
- Contents:
- The transformation of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia
- Settlers
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed June 18, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version: Stavnskær Doucette, Jonathan How settlers shaped Eastern Europe and Scandinavia
- ISBN:
- 9781009546683
- 1009546686
- 9781009546690
- 1009546694
- OCLC:
- 1578999982
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000349805
- CIPO000355709
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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