The manuscript is, in my opinion, an outstanding contribution to Latvian and Baltic history, as well as historiography. It successfully offers a synthetic historical volume by incorporating contemporary interdisciplinary methodologies and collaborative research practices. Rather than presenting different disciplines of history as isolated fields, the volume integrates economic processes with politics, demographic change, migration, technological development, environmental resources, regional disparities, and questions of national identity.
Ola Honningdal Grytten,
Professor, Norwegian School of Economics