Vanished Kingdoms
The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
$31.55
- Paperback
848 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2012
Summary
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 Medi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141048864 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141048867 |
| Author: | Norman Davies |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 848 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2012 |
| Weight: | 627g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 38mm |
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Critics Review
“Hugely ambitious … From the mists, Mr. Davies summons the kingdoms; he records their emergence, their flowering and their demise–whether by ‘internall diseases’ or ‘forraign warre’ in Thomas Hobbes’s words. And he examines the traces that the kingdoms have left behind, in works of art or a piece of rock or perhaps just a place name.”–“The Wall Street Journal”
About The Author
Norman Davies
Norman Davies is the author of the No 1 best-seller Europe: a History (1996), Microcosm: Portrait of a European City (with Roger Moorhouse), and Rising ‘44: the Battle for Warsaw. From 1997-2006 he was Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford; he is now Professor at the Jagiellonian University at Cracow, an Honorary Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a life member of Clare Hall and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and lives in Oxford and Cracow.
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