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Homelands : a personal history of Europe / Timothy Garton Ash.
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- ISBN: 0300257074
- ISBN: 9780300257076
- Physical Description: xv, 363 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
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| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Summary, etc.: | "Timothy Garton Ash, Europe's "historian of the present," has been "breathing Europe" for the last half century. In Homelands he embarks on a journey in time and space around the postwar continent, drawing on his own notes from many great events, giving vivid firsthand accounts of its leading actors, revisiting the places where its history was made, and recalling its triumphs and tragedies through their imprint on the present. Garton Ash offers an account of events as seen from the ground--history illustrated by memoir. He describes how Europe emerged from wartime devastation to rebuild, to triumph with the fall of the Berlin Wall, to democratize and unite. And then to falter. It is a singular history of a period of unprecedented progress along with a clear-eyed account of how so much went wrong, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the war in Ukraine. From the pen of someone who, in spite of Brexit, emphatically describes himself as an English European, this is both a tour d'horizon and a tour de force"-- Amazon. |
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Table of Contents
Homelands : A Personal History of Europe
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Prologue: Our time | xi | |
| Destroyed (1945) | ||
| Westen | 3 | |
| Hell | 8 | |
| Osten | 11 | |
| Zero, recurring | 15 | |
| Of fathers and fatherlands | 18 | |
| The memory engine | 21 | |
| Divided (1961-1979) | ||
| Curfew | 27 | |
| Europes | 35 | |
| Being there | 41 | |
| Kaleidotapestry | 45 | |
| Hamlet and the Yellow Submarine | 49 | |
| Rome | 57 | |
| Cold War West | 66 | |
| Friedrichstrasse, East | 74 | |
| Rising (1980-1989) | ||
| Freedom's battle | 85 | |
| 1984 | 95 | |
| 68ers and post-68ers | 102 | |
| Angelo Gotti | 112 | |
| Spectator Britain | 121 | |
| The upward turn | 128 | |
| Joachim | 140 | |
| Wall's fall | 144 | |
| Triumphing (1990-2007) | ||
| Post-Wall world | 153 | |
| The enlargement of the West | 158 | |
| Integration and disintegration | 164 | |
| Good King Wenceslas | 168 | |
| Genocide again | 177 | |
| Fish soup | 189 | |
| Freedom and its discontents | 195 | |
| One coin to bind them all | 203 | |
| From 9/11 to 9/11 | 211 | |
| Muslims in Europe | 217 | |
| Cool Britannia | 225 | |
| Hubris | 236 | |
| Faltering (2008-2022) | ||
| Zweig and the downward turn | 245 | |
| Euro, crisis | 248 | |
| Clash of empires | 256 | |
| Charlie Hebdo | 266 | |
| 'Invaders' | 273 | |
| Brexit | 279 | |
| Demolition | 294 | |
| A new Iron Curtain | 308 | |
| War in Ukraine | 321 | |
| Delphi | 331 | |
| Epilogue: On a Normandy Beach | 343 | |
| A note from the author | 351 | |
| Index of people and places | 353 |
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