timothy snyder the reconstruction of nations

He is author also of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), a history of Nazi and Soviet mass killing on the lands between Berlin and Moscow. His most recent book is Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, published in September 2015 by Crown Books. He has held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. “Snyder’s ultimate query in this fresh and stimulating look at the path to nationhood is how the bitter experiences along the way, including the bitterest-ethnic cleansing-are to be overcome.”-Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs Huntington, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies It has major implications for all of us who want to understand the processes of state collapse and nation-building in the world.”-Samuel P. “A brilliant and fascinating analysis of the subtleties, complexities, and paradoxes of the evolution of nations in Eastern Europe. “Timothy Snyder’s style is a welcome reminder that history writing can be-indeed, ought to be-a literary pursuit.”-Charles King, Times Literary Supplement

“A work of profound scholarship and considerable importance.”-Timothy Garton Ash, St. He presents the ideological innovations and ethnic cleansings that abetted the spread of modern nationalism but also examines recent statesmanship that has allowed national interests to be channeled toward peace. Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of four rival modern nationalist ideologies from common medieval notions of citizenship.

Timothy snyder the reconstruction of nations