Norman Davies
Litva: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
A Selection from Vanished Kingdoms (Penguin Tracks)
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The fascinating history of a Baltic empire's dominance and decline—excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies's Vanished KingdomsVanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-powerful European empires that have left scant traces on the modern map. In this excerpt from his widely acclaimed book, Norman Davies tells the ill-fated story of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Founded in the mid-thirteenth century in one of the continent's first settled regions, where the oldest of its Indo-European languages is spoken, the Grand Duchy at its peak was the largest country in Europe, stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and it…
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The fascinating history of a Baltic empire's dominance and decline—excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies's Vanished KingdomsVanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-powerful European empires that have left scant traces on the modern map. In this excerpt from his widely acclaimed book, Norman Davies tells the ill-fated story of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Founded in the mid-thirteenth century in one of the continent's first settled regions, where the oldest of its Indo-European languages is spoken, the Grand Duchy at its peak was the largest country in Europe, stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and it commanded yet greater influence after uniting with its western neighbor, the Kingdom of Poland, to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Grand Duchy's huge territory included the great cities of Kiev, Vilnius, Riga, Minsk, and Brest. Despite being ahead of its time as an elective republic in an age of absolute monarchy, power struggles and foreign incursions led to its ultimate demise and forced partition by Russia, Prussia, and Austria in 1795.In this selection from a work The Boston Globe has called commendably accessible, magisterial, and uncommonly humane,” Davies chronicles these rich yet unfamiliar chapters in the history of modern Lithuania, Belarus, and Latvia with his signature acuity and verve.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-101-63082-2
- EAN: 9781101630822
- Produktnummer: 17750895
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 90 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'816 KB
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NORMAN DAVIES was for many years a professor of history at the University of London and also taught at Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, and McGill. He is the bestselling author of Vanished Kingdoms; No Simple Victory; Rising '44 (a New York Times Notable Book); The Isles: A History; and Europe: A History. He is now a professor at the Jagiellonian University at Cracow, an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy.
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