Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

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Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

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Han ærgrer sig gul og grøn over Brexit, men han forstår og forklarer den halvdel af befolkningerne, som er skeptisk David Trads timothy garton ash son dakika gelişmeleri ve haberleri Radikal'de!". Radikal (in Turkish) . Retrieved 23 April 2016. Insightful. . . . Garton Ash’s often compelling homage to a liberated and prosperous Europe is tinged with disquiet and disappointment.”—Kim Bielenberg, The Independent Tremendously enjoyable ... thoughtful, honest, open, self-deprecating' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

Stalin's gulag continued to inflict the torments described by Alexander Solzhenitsyn… see Anne Applebaum, Gulag. A History, Allen Lane, London 2003. Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a lifetime studying Europe and this deeply felt book is full of vivid experiences: from his father's memories of D-Day and his own surveillance at the hands of the Stasi to interviewing Albanian guerrillas in the mountains of Kosovo and angry teenagers in the poorest quarters of Paris, as well as advising prime ministers, chancellors and presidents. The punishment for a man who murdered his adulterous wife… see Art. 372 of the 1886 Penal Code (Código Penal 1868) https://www.fd.unl.pt/Anexos/Investigacao/1274.pdf

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the Palio, the inter-communal horse race that was first recorded in 1239... Maria A. Ceppari Ridolfi, Marco Ciampolini, Patrizia Turrini (eds.), The Palio and Its Image. History, Culture and Representation of Siena’s Festival, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Siena 2001, p.32. Homelands is a stunning blend of contemporary history, reportage and memoir by our greatest writer about European affairs. Bogen er delt i fem hoveddele: 1. Ødelæggelsen – efter Anden Verdenskrig. 2. Opdelingen – under Den Kolde Krig. 3. Løftet – 80'ernes frihedskamp. 4. Triumfalismen – efter Murens fald. 5. Rystelserne – fra finanskrisen til Ukraine. Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe’s triumphs and tragedies Humane, expert and deeply felt, Homelands is full of encounters, conversations and anecdote. It is also highly personal:

Revolution', said Mao Zedong, 'is not a dinner party'... This comes in Mao's 1927 Investigation into the Peasant Question in Hunan, quoted in Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash, Civil Resistance and Power Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009, p.376.Months later, Soviet investigators determined…'… Gordon S. Barrass, The Great Cold War. A Journey Through the Hall of Mirrors, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2009, pp.1-2. I and the public know/what all schoolchildren learn'... W. H. Auden, 'September 1, 1939', see https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939

Or that Belarus lost some 2 million people out of a pre-war population of around 9 million, with another 3 million or more displaced?… Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands, Bodley Head, London 2010, p.251. Leaders came to trust one another, and changes in leadership were fortunate: Gorbachev preferred the sober George H.W. Bush—who wisely refrained from any triumphalist talk when the Soviet Union crumbled—to his predecessor. Leaders also came to trust different European peoples: Gorbachev, for instance, was moved by his enthusiastic reception in West Germany in the spring of 1989, not least among steelworkers in Dortmund, where chants of “Gorbi, Gorbi” gave rise to the neologism “Gorbimania.” The Soviet leader left convinced that the two German states might be allowed to unify without threatening European peace. the Polish and Czech words for king, król and král, derive from Karl – that is, Charlemagne... Peter H. Wilson, Heart of Europe. A History of the Holy Roman Empire, Harvard University Press, Cambridge/Massachusetts 2016, p.33. If a child went missing from the group, the others would say, quite matter-of-factly 'oh, he is dead'.… quoted by Mazower, Dark Continent, p.225-6, from the very remarkable book by Dorothy Macardle, Children of Europe, The Beacon Press, Boston 1951.a b Garton Ash, Timothy (12 April 2017). "We know the price of appeasement. That's why we must stand up to Viktor Orbán". The Guardian . Retrieved 12 September 2017. There is a long history of west Europeans... see Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe. The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment, Stanford University Press, Stanford 1994. thou art the sole Emperor of all the Christians in the whole universe…'… Geoffrey Hosking, Russia: People and Empire. 1552-1917, HarperCollins, London 1997, pp.5-6. A crowd made up mostly of young people sit, stand, and climb the graffiti-covered Berlin Wall in 1989.



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