Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History

Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History

'Human history is a tale not just of constant change but equally of perpetual locomotion', writes Norman Davies. Throughout the ages, men and women have endlessly sought the greener side of the hill. Their migrations, collisions, conquests and interactions have given rise to the spectacular profusion of cultures, races, languages and polities ...

 

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Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

Vanished Kingdoms drew attention to the fact that nations, like people, are mortal. But, while alive, they all claim some kind of immortality. (…) Beneath Another Sky is effectively a follow-up. But this time it is about the whole world. (…)

Stops along [the Davieses’] way produced chapters – on Delhi, Tasmania, Texas, Mauritius, Manhattan and so on – which were combinations of present observations and more or less conventional histories. Again he tackles the transience of nations, the temporary, accidental quality of their existence. The United Arab Emirates, for example, seem to be on their deathbed because of their hopelessly unbalanced societies. (…)

 

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