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review October 2024

A new history of the Middle Kingdoms

Review by Joseph F. Patrouch
A view of St Stephen's Cathedral through in a circular view. On the bottom you can see the Danube and the Chain bridge to the left. The picture has a moody quality.
In The Middle Kingdoms (Basic Books, 2023) Martyn Rady sketches the convoluted histories of Central Europe from the time of the Roman Empire in the second century CE to the renewed Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Patrouch writes that, despite omissions such as gender and minorities, Rady provides a useful overview of the political histories of the region.
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