PublishedPrinceton University Press, December 2019 |
ISBN9780691167121 |
FormatHardcover, 968 pages |
Dimensions23.5cm × 15.5cm |
A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today
In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast and disparate possessions, but his action had the opposite effect, catalyzing the emergen