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019    1356619321|a1388212695 
020    9781524748500|q(hardcover) 
020    1524748501|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)1331703524|z(OCoLC)1356619321|z(OCoLC)1388212695 
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050 00 DJK9|b.M55 2023 
082 00 947|223/eng/20220805 
100 1  Mikanowski, Jacob,|eauthor. 
245 10 Goodbye, Eastern Europe :|ban intimate history of a 
       divided land /|cJacob Mikanowski. 
246 30 Intimate history of a divided land 
250    First edition. 
263    2304 
264  1 New York :|bPantheon Books,|c[2023] 
264  4 |c©2023  
300    xxii, 376 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-352) and 
       index. 
505 0  Pagans and Christians -- Jews -- Muslims -- Heretics -- 
       Empires -- Peoples -- Wanderers -- Nations -- Moderns -- 
       Prophets -- War -- Stalinism -- Socialism -- Fall. 
520    "In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine,
       Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a 
       sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war,
       and bloodshed--from pre-Christianity to the fall of 
       Communism--illuminating the remarkable cultural 
       significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to 
       the margins of history. Eastern Europe, the moniker, has 
       gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. 
       Ask someone now, and they might tell you that Estonia is 
       in the Baltics, or Scandinavia, that Slovakia is in 
       Central Europe and Croatia is in the Eastern Adriatic or 
       the Balkans. In fact, Eastern Europe is a place that 
       barely exists at all, except in cultural memory. Yet it 
       remains a powerful marker of identity for many, with a 
       fragmented and wide history, defined by texts, myths, and 
       memories of centuries of hardship and suffering. Goodbye, 
       Eastern Europe is a masterful narrative about a place that
       has survived the brink of being forgotten. Beginning with 
       long-lost accounts of early pagan life, Mikanowski offers 
       a kaleidoscopic tour recounting the rise and fall of the 
       great empires--Ottoman, Hapsburg, and Russian--the dawn of
       the modern era, the ravages of Fascism and Communism, as 
       well as Capitalism, the birth of the modern nation-state, 
       and more. A student of literature, history, and the ghosts
       of his own family's past, Mikanowski paints a magisterial 
       portrait of a place united by diversity, and eclecticism, 
       and a people with the shared story of being the dominated 
       rather than the dominating. The result is a loving and 
       ebullient celebration of the distinctive and vibrant 
       cultures that stubbornly persisted at the margins of 
       Western Europe, and a powerful corrective that re-centers 
       our understanding of how the modern Western world took 
       shape"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 National characteristics, East European. 
650  7 Civilization.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00862898 
650  7 National characteristics, East European.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01033407 
650  7 HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.|2bisacsh 
651  0 Europe, Eastern|xHistory. 
651  0 Europe, Eastern|xCivilization. 
651  7 Eastern Europe.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01245079 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aMikanowski, Jacob|tGoodbye, Eastern 
       Europe.|bFirst edition|dNew York : Pantheon Books, [2023]
       |z9781524748517|w(DLC)  2022037757 
994    C0|bGPI