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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. not the fluent prose I have come to expect of Jan Morris, a very staccato style of writing. Essentially a collection of snapshots from her travels through Europe. Although there are at times common threads which make connections between the different 'chapters' (and I use that term loosely!), I found this quite disjointed and difficult to read. ( ) From its convenient base in Trieste, this book covers all the nations, powers, mish-mash and internet(physical) of Europe, with various interregns for things such as stateless peoples, flags, parliaments, food... A wide canvass, a labour of a lifetime, and, yes, of love. A superb book on Europe on the second half of the XXth century, but going much further back, until pre-historic times. And with almost flawless hindsight hinting at a possible/probable future unity of all the countries so personally dissected. Unity that is now for most of them a reality. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Is there really a new Europe? Have the extraordinary transformations of the last half century - the rise and fall of the Eastern Bloc, Germany's reunification, ethnic warfare, even the ongoing creation of a common parliament and currency - rendered our culture not only unrecognizable but unimaginable?" "These are among the myriad questions posed by Jan Morris in Fifty Years of Europe. Morris, one of our era's most engaging historians and celebrated travelers, revisits the continent she's long known so well and tries to discover whether she now knows it at all. How she contrasts her European experiences today with those of two generations past makes for an insightful and highly personal study."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)940.55History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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