Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe

ISBN-13: 9780141048864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 848 str.

Norman Davies

Opis

We tend to think of the European past as the history of countries which exist today but, for example, how many people know that Glasgow was founded by the Welsh in a period when neither England nor Scotland existed? Norman Davies gives us a fresh perspective on the history of Europe.

O autorze

Norman Davies was for many years a professor at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London University. He is the author of the acclaimed Vanished Kingdoms, Beneath Another Sky and the number one bestseller Europe: A History. His previous books, which include Rising '44, The Isles: A History and God's Playground: A History of Poland, have been translated worldwide. He has researched at universities from Harvard to Hokkaido, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a visiting scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge.