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Fifty years of Europe : an album
- Title
- Fifty years of Europe : an album / Jan Morris.
- Author
- Morris, Jan, 1926-2020.
- Publication
- New York : Villard, 1997.
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- Description
- 366 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Is there really a new Europe? Have the extraordinary transformations of the last half century - the rise and fall of the Eastern Bloc, Germany's reunification, ethnic warfare, even the ongoing creation of a common parliament and currency - rendered our culture not only unrecognizable but unimaginable?
- These are among the myriad questions posed by Jan Morris in Fifty Years of Europe. Morris, one of our era's most engaging historians and celebrated travelers, revisits the continent she's long known so well and tries to discover whether she now knows it at all. How she contrasts her European experiences today with those of two generations past makes for an insightful and highly personal study.
- Subjects
- Contents
- An Introduction: Setting the scene for contemplation, on a bollard in Trieste -- 1. Holy Symptoms: Sacred complexities of Europe, starting with paganism, ending with art -- 2. The Mishmash: Europe's ethnic and geographical confusion, embracing frontiers, minorities, enclaves, islands, anomalies and miscellaneous surprises -- 3. Nations, States and Bloody Powers: The mess the Europeans have made of their continent, country by country -- 4. The Internet: Despite itself, Europe is bound together by habit and technique -- 5. Spasms of Unity: Six auempts to make a whole of Europe, from the Holy Roman Empire to the European Union -- An Epilogue: Wry smiles and brave hopes, back on the Trieste waterfront.
- ISBN
- 0679416102
- LCCN
- 97019926
- OCLC
- 45163399
- ocm45163399
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries