Vanished kingdoms
Subtitle: the rise and fall of states and nations
By: Norman Davies
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 830
ISBN-13: 9780670022731
Subjects: Politics and government; Collective memory; Historical geography; Military History; Social change; Nation-state; Nationalism; Disasters; History
Description: Chronicles the history of fourteen lost European kingdoms and what their stories can teach the modern world, providing narrative accounts of the rise and fall of nations ranging from Tolosa to the Soviet Union.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tolosa : Soujourn of the Visigoths (AD 418-507); title: Alt Clud : Kingdom of the Rock (Fifth to Twelfth Centuries); title: Burgundia : Five, Six, or Seven Kingdoms (c. 411-1795); title: Aragon : A Mediterranean Empire (1137-1714); title: Litva : A Grand Duchy with Kings (1253-1795); title: Byzantion : The Star-lit Golden Bough (330-1453); title: Borussia : Watery Land of the Prusai (1230-1945); title: Sabaudia : The House that Humbert Built (1033-1946); title: Galicia : Kingdom of the Naked and Starving (1773-1918); title: Etruria : French Snake in the Tuscan Grass (1801-14); title: Rosenau : The Loved and Unwonted Legacy (1826-1918); title: Tsernagora : Kingdom of the Black Mountain (1910-1918); title: Rusyn : The Republic of One Day (15 March 1939); title: Éire : The Unconscionable Tempo of the Crown's Retreat (1916-2011); title: CCCP : The Ultimate Vanishing Act (1924-1991); title: How States Die.