The Baltic: a history

In this overview of the Baltic region, which covers over a thousand years, from the Vikings to the European Union, Michael North presents the sea and the lands that surround it as a Nordic Mediterranean, a maritime zone of shared influence, with its own distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict.

Describing a part of the world where seas have been much more connective than land, he reconceptualises a body of water too often ignored in studies of the world's major waterways.