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Excerpt from The Czecho-Slovaks: An Oppressed Nationality When as a young man Disraeli first came forward in politics a proud and noble lord inquired, some what superciliously: What is he? In answer Disraeli wrote a pamphlet in which he sketched the scheme of his life. But'then he was a young man. Many people now reading the name of Czecho Slovaks in the Allies' answer to President Wilson ask: What are they? They are an old nation which has e...

Concentrating on the revolutions of central and eastern Europe, Namier explains in this reissue of his famous essay how 1848 inaugurated a new age, not of liberalism as the revolutionaries hoped, but of nationalism. With a new introduction by Joll, this book not only sheds light on the year 1848 itself but also fresh insights into historical forces still at work in our own time.

Excerpt from Germany and Eastern Europe In the many English books and pamphlets which owe their origin to the present war and are concerned with exhibiting its causes and its meaning there is a general and very natural tendency to lay special stress upon those aspects of European history which are most familiar to Western observers and have the most direct bearing upon the fortunes of the Western Powers. Thus the war is sometimes depicted as ...

Excerpt from The Czecho-Slovaks: An Oppressed Nationality When as a young man Disraeli first came forward in politics a proud and noble lord inquired, some what superciliously: What is he? In answer Disraeli wrote a pamphlet in which he sketched the scheme of his life. But'then he was a young man. Many people now reading the name of Czecho Slovaks in the Allies' answer to President Wilson ask: What are they? They are an old nation which has e...

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France, India and the revolt of the American colonies all had an impact on the business of the House during the second half of the eighteenth century, as detailed in these volumes of the History of Parliament.