Vanished Kingdoms

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A magical and acclaimed history, bringing back to life the lost realms of Europe, now in trade paperbackWe habitually think of the European past as the history of countries which e xist today but Europe's history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires and republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age - 'the Empire of Aragon' which once dominated the western Mediterranean; the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, for a time the largest country in Europe; the successive kingdoms (and one duchy) of Burgundy, much of whose history is now half-remembered - or half-forgotten - at best.How many British people know that Glasgow was founded by the Welsh in a period when neither England nor Scotland existed? How many of us will remember the former Soviet Union in a few generations' time? Will our own United Kingdom become a distant memory too? As in his earlier celebrated books Europe- a History and The Isles, Norman Davies aims to subvert our established view of what seems familiar, and urges us to look and think again. Show more