New Masters of the Baltic
A 1921 travel book about the new Baltic states, written before anyone knew how it ended.
Arthur Brown Ruhl travelled through the Baltic republics just after they emerged from the Russian empire, and reported on countries that were then only a few years old. Its value now is the perspective: the assumptions, blind spots and confident predictions of a moment before everything that followed, which no later account can reproduce.
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Tyler Cowen
Arthur Brown Ruhl, New Masters of the Baltic, a travel book from 1921. If you visit any place, you always should try to read a much earlier travel book on said place. Fantastic for perspective, indefensible but nonetheless insightful generalizations, and these books give you a sense for just how contingent history can be.
Source · July 2024
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