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Homelands

A Personal History of Europe
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2023

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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

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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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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Prologue: Our time

    xi
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  • Destroyed (1945)
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    Westen

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    Hell

    8
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    Osten

    11
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    Zero, recurring

    15
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    Of fathers and fatherlands

    18
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    The memory engine

    21
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  • Divided (1961– 1979)
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    Curfew

    25
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    Europes

    35
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    Being there

    41
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    Kaleidotapestry

    45
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    Hamlet and the Yellow Submarine

    49
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    Rome

    57
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    Cold War West

    66
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    Friedrichstrasse, East

    74
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  • Rising (1980– 1989)
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    Freedom’s battle

    83
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    1984

    95
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    68ers and post- 68ers

    102
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    Angelo Gotti

    112
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    Spectator Britain

    121
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    The upward turn

    128
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    Joachim

    140
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    Wall’s fall

    144
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  • Triumphing (1990– 2007)
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    Post-Wall world

    151
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    The enlargement of the West

    158
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    Integration and disintegration

    164
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    Good King Wenceslas

    168
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    Genocide again

    177
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    Fish soup

    189
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    Freedom and its discontents

    195
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    One coin to bind them all

    203
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    From 9/11 to 9/11

    211
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    Muslims in Europe

    217
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    Cool Britannia

    225
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    Hubris

    236
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  • Faltering (2008– 2022)
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    Zweig and the downward turn

    243
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    Euro, crisis

    248
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    Clash of empires

    256
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    Charlie Hebdo

    266
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    ‘Invaders’

    273
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    Brexit

    279
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    Demolition

    294
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    A new Iron Curtain

    308
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    War in Ukraine

    321
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    Delphi

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    Epilogue: On a Normandy Beach

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    A note from the author

    350
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    Index of people and places

    352
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May 23, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9780300271416
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