Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
A Historical, Nonfiction, History book. It was at The Little Lodge I was first menaced...
From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of Europe: A History, comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent, Guardian and Financial Times.Europe's history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires and republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age. What happened to the once-great Mediterranean 'Empire of Aragon'? Where did the half-forgotten kingdoms of Burgundy go? Which current nations will one day become a distant memory too? This original and enthralling book peers through the cracks of history to discover the stories of lost realms...
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- Pages: 830 pages
- ISBN: 9780141048864 / 141048867
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The history of Royal Prussia, which fell into the Polish orbit, is little known to those who approach the Prussian story from an exclusively German perspective. (The subject was actively suppressed by bans and book-burnings when the Hohenzollerns eventually took over.) Yet for 300 years this Other Prussia flourished, not only as a separate institutional entity, but as the source of a separate political ideology and culture, based on concepts of freedom and liberty. Though the population was ethically mixed, Polish and German with a strong German predominance... the Welsh name for England, Lloegr, meant the Lost Land, I fell for the fancy, imagining what a huge sense of loss and forgetting the name expresses. A learned colleague has since told me that my imagination had outrun the etymology. Yet as someone brought up in English surroundings, I never cease to be amazed that everywhere which we now call England was once not English at all. Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe The difference between a referendum and a plebiscite is a fine one. Both pertain to collective decisions made by the direct vote of all qualified adults. The referendum, which derives from Swiss practice, involves an issue that is provisionally determined in advance, but that is then referred for a final decision by the whole electorate. This Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
While the historical content of this book was very interesting, and in some cases, new and revealing, the overall theme seems to be more about how people think about history, or, rather, don't think about history. Since Davies is a specialist in Eastern Europe, I would guess that the examples from that area are most accurate, but I'm... While seemingly impressive and erudite, I was a little disappointed with this book for two reasons; the narrative is on the clunky side and i remember (maybe wrongly though) that I liked the narrative in Europe and The Isles and thought it flowed.On the content side, the lesser known states have some interesting tidbits but i found... Finito. Finally. This is a great, big, honking book.It started out really well, with the exception that EVERYONE in the Kingdom of Aragon has the same damn name which got confusing. But about halfway through the book, around the tail-end of the Litva (Lithuania) chapter the tone started to shift. It became less objective and far more...
