by Timothy Garton Ash · Editorial Notícias · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724611631
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«História do presente» is Timothy Garton Ash's book of historical essays, published by Editorial Notícias in paperback (478 pages, in Portuguese).
It brings together 29 essays, sketches and dispatches from the 1990s on Europe's transformation: the fall of Lech Walesa in Poland, the disintegration of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo and Russia's course. George Kennan defined that blend of reportage and historical perspective as «history of the present».
Portuguese translation of the original History of the Present, first published in 1999. The Editorial Notícias edition came out in 2001.
For readers interested in recent European history, authored journalism and political analysis of the late 20th century.
Timothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies emeritus at the University of Oxford and a Senior Fellow of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Most of his work has been concerned with the contemporary history of Europe, with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe. In 1989, George Kennan described him as a 'historian of the present'.
