9788173049200 - Our History, Their History: The Contrasting Historical Narratives of East and West von Cheema, G.S. (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 248.

While India has been united for considerable periods of its history the Western worlds have never been united - not since the fall of Rome in the fifth century In spite of appallingly bloody wars the political subdivisions of Europe are seemingly permanent Frontiers have changed only marginally over the past 700 years In India on the hand the states of the present Union are largely artificial It is not that European princes did not overseas All attempts to unify Europe itself under one emperor after the Roman model failed The Holy Roman was an empire only in the name The Emperor in spite of his bombastic titles was scarcely even king of Germany These are some of the questions and paradoxes that the author has tried to answer and explain in this stimulating and thought provoking volume 248 pp.