{"product_id":"from-peoples-into-nations-9780691208954","title":"From Peoples into Nations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you want to understand why illiberal democracy is not the newest of ideas, or how a raft of leaders has emerged in Hungary, Poland and the Balkans who seem to echo a dark time in our continent’s history, this compelling book, covering the last 200 years in the region, is a good place to start. . . . Few recent works have made the past so relevant to our times.\"\u003cb\u003e---Victor Sebestyen, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Connelly captures superbly the divergences and rivalries within his basket of nationalities: how little coordination took place between them; how little they recognised what he calls their ‘common predicament.’\"\u003cb\u003e---R.J.W. Evans, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A rich narrative history of Central and Eastern Europe.\"\u003cb\u003e---Damir Marusic, \u003ci\u003eWashington Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eFrom Peoples into Nations\u003c\/i\u003e] will doubtless emerge as a landmark contribution to the study of nationalism as a political force in Eastern Europe.\" * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cp\u003eThe author has provided his reader not only with a detailed ‘crash course’ on how the people of Eastern Europe formed\u003cbr\u003enations there, but also with a ‘road map’ for further intellectual immersion. John Connelly’s monograph, therefore, serves as a valuable contribution to the broader understanding of Eastern Europe and an introductory textbook on a geographic space where more good and bad happened during the twentieth century than anywhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e---Paweł Markiewicz, \u003ci\u003eSlavonic and East European Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A magisterial account about Eastern Europe that forcefully reminds us of the enduring and adaptable power of national passions in modern history. . . .Connelly is undeniably one of the best experts in regional history of central and eastern Europe, but most of all, he is a comparative historian of nation-states. . . .[B]efore any vast global comparisons can be made, we need rich, rigorous, and authoritative regional histories. \u003ci\u003eFrom Peoples into Nations \u003c\/i\u003edelivers just that.\"\u003cb\u003e---Małgorzata Mazurek, \u003ci\u003eH-Diplo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"N\/A\"\u003cb\u003e---Fabian Baumann, \u003ci\u003eJahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865547649367,"sku":"9780691208954","price":19.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-peoples-into-nations-9780691208954","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}