Borderlines
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Lewis Baston
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A history of twenty-nine European borderlines from a political analyst and Tim Marshall´s ´borders expert´.
´Thrillingly unique, knowledgeable, perceptive and profound´ IAN DUNT
´A light-footed journey along the fault lines of history.´ KATJA HOYER
The history of Europe told through twenty-nine key borders that define the past, present and future of our continent
Europe´s internal borders have rarely been ´natural´; they have more often been created by accident or force.
In Borderlines, political historian Lewis Baston journeys along twenty-nine key borders from west to east Europe, examining how the map of our continent has been redrawn over the last century, with varying degrees of success. The fingerprints of Napoleon, Alexander I, Castlereagh, Napoleon III and Bismarck are all there, but today´s map of Europe is mostly the work of the Allies in 1919 and Stalin in 1945.
To journey to the centre of the story of Europe, Baston takes us to its edges, bringing to life the fascinating and often bizarre histories of these border zones. We visit Baarle, the town broken into thirty fragments by the Netherland-Belgium border, and stop in Ostritz, the eastern German town where Nazis held a rock festival. We meander the back lanes of rural Ireland, and soak up the atmosphere in the coffee houses of the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi. Through these borderlands, Baston explores how places and people heal from the scars left by a Europe of ethnic cleansing and barbed wire fences, and he searches for a better European future - finding it in unexpected places.
´Extraordinarily perceptive and original´ ANTHONY SELDON
´Refreshing and important´ RAFAEL BEHR
´Thrillingly unique, knowledgeable, perceptive and profound´ IAN DUNT
´A light-footed journey along the fault lines of history.´ KATJA HOYER
The history of Europe told through twenty-nine key borders that define the past, present and future of our continent
Europe´s internal borders have rarely been ´natural´; they have more often been created by accident or force.
In Borderlines, political historian Lewis Baston journeys along twenty-nine key borders from west to east Europe, examining how the map of our continent has been redrawn over the last century, with varying degrees of success. The fingerprints of Napoleon, Alexander I, Castlereagh, Napoleon III and Bismarck are all there, but today´s map of Europe is mostly the work of the Allies in 1919 and Stalin in 1945.
To journey to the centre of the story of Europe, Baston takes us to its edges, bringing to life the fascinating and often bizarre histories of these border zones. We visit Baarle, the town broken into thirty fragments by the Netherland-Belgium border, and stop in Ostritz, the eastern German town where Nazis held a rock festival. We meander the back lanes of rural Ireland, and soak up the atmosphere in the coffee houses of the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi. Through these borderlands, Baston explores how places and people heal from the scars left by a Europe of ethnic cleansing and barbed wire fences, and he searches for a better European future - finding it in unexpected places.
´Extraordinarily perceptive and original´ ANTHONY SELDON
´Refreshing and important´ RAFAEL BEHR
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Format
Paperback
Author
Lewis Baston
Language
English
Publishing company
Hodder
Added date
19.06.2024
Year of publication
2024
Pages
320
Product code
9781399723770
Barcode
9781399723770
ISBN
9781399723770