Vanished Kingdoms. The History of Half-Forgotten Europe (Davies Norman); Penguin, 2012

A magical and acclaimed history, bringing back to life the lost realms of Europe, now in trade paperback

We habitually think of the European past as the history of countries which exist today but 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 - 'the Empire of Aragon' which once dominated the western Mediterranean; the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, for a time the largest country in Europe; the successive kingdoms (and one duchy) of Burgundy, much of whose history is now half-remembered - or half-forgotten - at best.

How many British people know that Glasgow was founded by the Welsh in a period when neither England nor Scotland existed? How many of us will remember the former Soviet Union in a few generations' time? Will our own United Kingdom become a distant memory too? As in his earlier celebrated books Europe: a History and The Isles, Norman Davies aims to subvert our established view of what seems familiar, and urges us to look and think again.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9780141048864
Автор(ы)	Davies Norman
Вес	0.61
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2012
Жанр	история
Издатель	Penguin
Издательство	Penguin
Кол-во страниц	830
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	830
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая