The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady
The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady
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The Middle Kingdoms
A New History of Central Europe

Author: Martyn Rady

Narrator: John Curless

Unabridged: 22 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 05/02/2023

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Synopsis

An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world history  
 
Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive history of the region, demonstrating that Central Europe has always been more than merely the fault line between West and East. Even as Central European powers warred with their neighbors, the region developed its own cohesive identity and produced tremendous accomplishments in politics, society, and culture. Central Europeans launched the Reformation and Romanticism, developed the philosophy of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and advanced some of the twentieth century’s most important artistic movements. 
 
Drawing on a lifetime of research and scholarship, The Middle Kingdoms tells as never before the captivating story of two thousand years of Central Europe’s history and its enduring significance in world affairs.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fred on February 14, 2024

Rady is a good introduction to the the history of Mitteleuropa. He begins with the Romans and the various migrations that swept across the continent. He includes Germany (and the western Rhinelands), which I don't typically include in Central Europe; perhaps that is post WWII thinking on my part. As......more

Goodreads review by Zeb on April 24, 2023

First of all this has nothing to do with China. The Kingdoms that Rady writes about are those in Central Europe. It begins with those provinces of the Roman Empire that were south of the Danube, After the fall of Rome, many of the countries that survived, such as parts of the Holy Roman Empire, Pol......more