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Homelands de Timothy Garton Ash

Homelands

Autor Timothy Garton Ash
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mar 2024

Descoperim în Homelands o structură narativă hibridă, pe care Timothy Garton Ash o definește drept „istorie a prezentului”. Materialul este organizat nu doar cronologic, ci și geografic, autorul revizitând locurile esențiale unde s-a scris istoria continentului în ultima jumătate de secol. Metodologia sa îmbină rigoarea documentară a istoricului cu observația directă a jurnalistului politic, oferind o perspectivă „de la firul ierbii” asupra marilor transformări europene. Reținem că această lucrare nu este un simplu tratat academic, ci o dare de seamă personală și lucidă despre succesele și eșecurile proiectului european. Analizând parcursul de la devastarea de după 1945 până la speranța generată de căderea Zidului Berlinului, autorul nu evită momentele de declin recent. Homelands este comparabil cu Postwar de Tony Judt în rigurozitate, dar este actualizat pentru provocările deceniului actual, incluzând analize despre Brexit și impactul războiului din Ucraina. Dacă în lucrări anterioare precum The Magic Lantern sau History of the Present, autorul se concentra pe euforia tranziției de la comunism la democrație în Europa Centrală, aici adoptă o viziune panoramică asupra întregului continent, de la criza financiară din 2008 până în prezent. Recomandăm această ediție pentru felul în care reușește să sintetizeze complexitatea instituțională a Europei prin povești umane și experiențe directe. Stilul este fluid și inteligent, evitând jargonul tehnic, dar păstrând o precizie critică necesară înțelegerii locului pe care îl ocupă Europa în ordinea mondială actuală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781529925074
ISBN-10: 152992507X
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 128 x 194 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Vintage

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor interesat de istoria politică și socială a Europei contemporane. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care evenimentele trecute modelează crizele actuale, totul prin prisma unui martor direct al istoriei. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege de ce proiectul european a pendulat între triumf și fragmentare, oferind un context vital pentru actualitatea geopolitică.

Despre autor

Timothy Garton Ash este un renumit istoric, publicist și profesor de studii europene la Universitatea Oxford, unde conduce Centrul de Studii Europene de la St. Antony's College. Este, de asemenea, senior fellow la Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Autor a numeroase volume de „istorie a prezentului”, printre care The File și The Polish Revolution, Ash a documentat transformările politice ale Europei în ultimele decenii pentru publicații prestigioase precum The Guardian și New York Review of Books. Expertiza sa vastă i-a adus numeroase distincții, inclusiv Premiul Lionel Gelber în 2024 pentru lucrarea de față.

Descriere scurtă

'Tremendously enjoyable ... thoughtful, honest, open, self-deprecating' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
'Readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide ... panoramic ... defiantly hopeful' Financial Times

Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.

Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a lifetime studying Europe and this deeply felt book is full of vivid experiences: from his father's memories of D-Day and his own surveillance at the hands of the Stasi to interviewing Albanian guerrillas in the mountains of Kosovo and angry teenagers in the poorest quarters of Paris, as well as advising prime ministers, chancellors and presidents.

Homelands is at once a living, breathing history of a period of unprecedented progress, a clear-eyed account of how so much then went wrong and an urgent call to the citizens of this great old continent to understand and defend what we have collectively achieved.

'The right book for Europe, at the right time' Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
'A moving love letter to Europe' Lea Ypi, author of Free

Recenzii

“An irresistibly well-written book, fluent, witty, and intelligent.”—Neal Acherson, New York Review of Books

“This is not a potted history of the European Union—still less of Britain’s tortuous relationships with it. Instead, the book casts a panoramic eye over a far-flung continent of 850 million people, and heeds the word on the street in Pristina as much as in Paris. . . . [A] fair-minded but warm-hearted book.”—Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times

“Told through Garton Ash’s personal reflections and his analyses of shifts in the political organization of the continent, this history explores the question of what it means to be European—if anything at all.”—New York Times Book Review

“Tremendously enjoyable. . . . Thoughtful, honest, open, self-deprecating.”—Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

A Financial Times Best Book of 2023

“Timothy Garton Ash has combined work in academia, journalism and political analysis for nearly half a century. . . . His new book is an insightful analysis of the transformation of central and eastern Europe in the decades between the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”—John Palmer, The Guardian

“At once accessible, engaging and erudite, Homelands is an extraordinary accomplishment, much like the author’s life; it is a heartfelt call to arms.”—Times Literary Supplement

“Homelands is a trip down memory lane on a continental scale.”—The Economist

“From the ‘miracle’ of 1989 to the return of state thuggery, readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide to the continent’s triumphs and travails.”—Financial Times

“Garton Ash is a clear-headed chronicler of the Continent [and] Homelands is an engaging read.”—Irish Times

“Outstanding. . . . Homelands is an elegantly written piece of contemporary history by one of Britain’s leading public intellectuals.”—Richard Briand, The Spectator

“There are historians of Europe who remain detached from the messy realities of the continent’s present. And there are commentators who are immersed in that present but lack the historical knowledge to truly understand it. No figure better unites both disciplines than . . . Timothy Garton Ash. His history of the continent’s ‘overlapping timeframes of postwar and post-Wall’ is rich with originality and memoiristic details.”—Jeremy Cliffe, New Statesman

“[A] beautiful new book. . . . Homelands is a synthetic, personal retrospective . . . yet it is far more than a compendium of illustrative vignettes and well-told stories. . . . It provides essential analytical overviews of all the salient events of European unity and division.”—William Collins Donahue, Commonweal

“A fluent and authoritative account of Europe since the Second World War, punctuated by vivid personal vignettes . . . from a passionate pro-European.”—Literary Review

“An authoritative big picture well matched with revealing, important human details.”—The Tablet

“Insightful. . . . Garton Ash’s often compelling homage to a liberated and prosperous Europe is tinged with disquiet and disappointment.”—Kim Bielenberg, The Independent

“Homelands is an illuminating and accessible work on a mammoth subject: Europe. . . . A stunning combination of memoir, reportage and history.”—Lucy Popescu, Camden New Journal

“Beautifully written and full of perceptive detail and personal observations. . . . In his astute reflections on the arc of European history since the Second World War through to the return of major war in Ukraine in 2022, Garton Ash does not let his aspirations for Europe obscure the enormous challenges it faces today.”—Hanns W. Maull, Survival

“Garton Ash cogently ties [his] personal experiences . . . to the sweeping changes that altered the continent’s political structure . . . : the creation of the European Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Brexit. . . . Scintillating.”—Publishers Weekly

“Is Europe a real entity or a mere wishful-thinking construct? This closely observed book explores both possibilities.”—Kirkus Reviews

“A series of . . . gemlike vignettes.”—Gustav Jönsson, Washington Examiner

2024 Lionel Gelber Prize winner, sponsored by the Munk Centre for International Studies

“We know there are Germans, Italians, Spaniards and Poles—but are there Europeans? Yes, at least one: Timothy Garton Ash. Homelands is the brilliant, captivating story of how he became one.”—Mark Lilla, author of The Once and Future Liberal

“Garton Ash deftly combines scholarship, journalistic experience, and personal observations and stories in Homelands. He offers an intellectual’s history with a popular touch that is both delightful and thought-provoking.”—Robert B. Zoellick, author of America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

“Garton Ash has carved out a unique niche as a ‘historian of the present.’ Homelands combines his eye-witness account of Europe’s evolution with his keen historical insight to offer an innovative and compelling book.”—Charles A. Kupchan, author of Isolationism

“The right book for Europe, at the right time. For a continent fascinated with its past, and yet indispensable for everyone’s future, this mix of memoir and reflection is the perfect book for the present. In beautiful language, Garton Ash gives us a sense of the Europe that was, and of one that might yet be.”—Timothy Snyder, author of The Road to Unfreedom
 
“A moving love letter to Europe, Homelands merges memoir, political analysis and social criticism to reflect on the future of a continent still haunted by its past. Friend of dissidents in former communist Europe, first-hand witness of high politics in the West, Garton Ash is unafraid to think about what the European project got wrong but also how it can redeem itself.”—Lea Ypi, author of Free
 
“This book, from a man who had a front-row seat to much of the history he describes, draws on his experiences and those of his friends to bring events to vivid life.”—M. E. Sarotte, author of Not One Inch

Notă biografică

Timothy Garton Ash is professor of European studies at the University of Oxford and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His books include The Magic Lantern, his eyewitness account of the revolutions of 1989; The File: A Personal History, based on reading his own Stasi file; and History of the Present. He lives in Oxford, England.

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Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe’s triumphs and tragedies