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Vanished Kingdoms, How Nations Rise and Fall

Vanished Kingdoms, How Nations Rise and Fall

by Norman Davies

  • HISTORY
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 720 PAGES

There is something profoundly romantic about lost civilizations. Davies, Professor Emeritus at London University, peers through the cracks in the mainstream accounts of modern-day states to present to us the histories of fourteen all-but-forgotten European kingdoms and nation states -- Aragon, Etruria, the Kingdom of the Two Burgundies, among others -- showing us how countries rise, mature and disappear.  (EUR404, $25.00)

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