From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
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From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
By (Author) John Connelly
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
1st June 2022
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History and Archaeology
Nationalism
General and world history
943.7
Physical Properties
Paperback
968
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast and disparate possessions, but his action had the opposite effect, catalyzing the emergen
Reviews
"If you want to understand why illiberal democracy is not the newest of ideas, or how a raft of leaders has emerged in Hungary, Poland and the Balkans who seem to echo a dark time in our continents history, this compelling book, covering the last 200 years in the region, is a good place to start. . . . Few recent works have made the past so relevant to our times."---Victor Sebestyen, Sunday Times
"Connelly captures superbly the divergences and rivalries within his basket of nationalities: how little coordination took place between them; how little they recognised what he calls their common predicament."---R.J.W. Evans, Literary Review
"A rich narrative history of Central and Eastern Europe."---Damir Marusic, Washington Examiner
"[From Peoples into Nations] will doubtless emerge as a landmark contribution to the study of nationalism as a political force in Eastern Europe." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *
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The author has provided his reader not only with a detailed crash course on how the people of Eastern Europe formed
nations there, but also with a road map for further intellectual immersion. John Connellys monograph, therefore, serves as a valuable contribution to the broader understanding of Eastern Europe and an introductory textbook on a geographic space where more good and bad happened during the twentieth century than anywhere else.
"A magisterial account about Eastern Europe that forcefully reminds us of the enduring and adaptable power of national passions in modern history. . . .Connelly is undeniably one of the best experts in regional history of central and eastern Europe, but most of all, he is a comparative historian of nation-states. . . .[B]efore any vast global comparisons can be made, we need rich, rigorous, and authoritative regional histories. From Peoples into Nations delivers just that."---Magorzata Mazurek, H-Diplo
Author Bio
John Connelly is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History and director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education and From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews. He lives in Kensington, California.
