SZELĄGOWSKI- WALKA O BAŁTYK wyd. 1904

SZELĄGOWSKI Adam

FIGHT FOR BALTIC 1544-1621

Lvov ; Warsaw 1904; E. Wende and Company ; Bernard Połoniecki's Polish Bookstore, pp. 7, [1], 399, [1]; format 13.5x21cm

In the series "The Northern Case in the XVI and XVII Centuries." Part 1

"In historiography, the division of European history into two halves has been established: the history of the East and the history of the West. The mutual opposition of these two parts of the world has been expressed variously over the centuries; in the form of ethnic, religious, cultural, state, and has been preserved to this day in the form of the so-called eastern question. But does this division and position in history exhaust the entire range of questions, related to the geographic and historical development of Europe? Not necessarily, since in addition to the eastern issue there is also the northern issue.
What do we mean by this term? As is clear from the term itself, it is a geographic-political problem, related to the commercial-economic and power development of the northern peoples ? primarily those who live in the Baltic Sea basin.
Did such a problem exist and does it exist? The first question is easily answered by a fact as positive as the clearly, clearly and consciously understood struggle for dominium maris Baltici, which begins almost from the middle of the 13th century, i.e. with the rise of the first commercial and political power in the Baltic Sea, which was the Hanseatic League ? a struggle which then continues uninterrupted until the first half of the 18th century in the form of competition between northern powers such as Sweden and Denmark, Moscow and Sweden, Poland and Sweden and Moscow.
Does such a problem exist? The answer lies in the fact that the result of the clash between the two major northern powers in the 17th century, Poland and Sweden, was the predominance of the Russian and Prussian states that grew out of the ruins of these powers ? an advantage that continues to this day. We say Prussian, not German, because the history of Germany proper belongs to the history of the Western world, and that is actually the German Empire, which ended in 1806. (after the Battle of Ulm, Austerlitz and after the Peace of Prešburg in 1805). The new German empire is actually the hegemony of Prussia ? or ephemeral ? ? that still cannot be answered today." Excerpt from the preface.

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