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Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations

By Norman Davies

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2012
ISBN
0143122959, 9780143122951
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
27 MB (28028737 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
848\0
Time added
2013-10-22 12:48:15

Description

From the bestselling author of Europe: A History comes a uniquely ambitious masterpiece that will thrill fans of lost civilizations While Germany, Italy, France, and England dominate our conceptions of Europe, these modern states are relatively recent constructs. In this brilliant work of historical reconstruction, Norman Davies brings back to life the long-forgotten empire of Aragon, which once controlled the Western Mediterranean; the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, once the largest country in Europe, and the Kingdom of the Rock, founded by ancient Britons when neither England nor Scotland existed. In the tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, Davies subverts our established view of the past and urges us to reconsider the impetus for the rise and fall of nations.

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