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From Peoples into Nations - A History of Eastern Europe (Paperback)
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From Peoples into Nations - A History of Eastern Europe (Paperback)
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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 emergence of competing nationalisms among his
Hungarian, Czech, and other subjects, who feared that their
languages and cultures would be lost. In this sweeping narrative
history of Eastern Europe since the late eighteenth century, John
Connelly connects the stories of the region's diverse peoples,
telling how, at a profound level, they have a shared understanding
of the past. An ancient history of invasion and migration made the
region into a cultural landscape of extraordinary variety, a
patchwork in which Slovaks, Bosnians, and countless others live
shoulder to shoulder and where calls for national autonomy often
have had bloody effects among the interwoven ethnicities. Connelly
traces the rise of nationalism in Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and
Ottoman lands; the creation of new states after the First World War
and their later absorption by the Nazi Reich and the Soviet Bloc;
the reemergence of democracy and separatist movements after the
collapse of communism; and the recent surge of populist politics
throughout the region. Because of this common experience of
upheaval, East Europeans are people with an acute feeling for the
precariousness of history: they know that nations are not eternal,
but come and go; sometimes they disappear. From Peoples into
Nations tells their story.
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