Goodbye Eastern Europe : an intimate history of a divided land
Mikanowski, Jacob2023
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Place reservation for Goodbye Eastern Europe : an intimate history of a divided landEastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to mind a jumble of post-Soviet states paved over with C&A and McDonald's. We could describe Eastern Europe as a group of 20 nations - but why? For most of their history, they weren't nations at all. The region is more than the sum total of its annexations, invasions and independence declarations. Eastern Europe abounds with peoples tied together by tragicomic twists of fate. Lives could be turned upside down by distant decrees from Vienna or Istanbul, or just as easily by a stubborn bureaucrat in your village. 'Goodbye Eastern Europe' is a eulogy for a world we are losing, a vanishing culture of polytheism, vampires, sacred groves, and movable borders.
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Goodbye Eastern Europe : an intimate history of a divided land / Jacob Mikanowski.
Author:
Mikanowski, Jacob, author
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London : Oneworld, 2023.
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400 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780861542598 (hbk)
Dewey class:
947
Language:
English
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1217623
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