Norman Davies terms his new book, "VanishedKingdoms", a work of "historical salvage" in which he brings to the surface long-sunken wrecks of European history.

它将欧洲历史中消失的王国从奔腾的时间长河中打捞出来，为读者一一呈现。

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Norman Davies's new book is the diametric opposite of Mr Elton's, in both scale and argument.

ECONOMIST: British history

Well-respected academics like Sir Norman Davies and Simon Schama have swapped the safety of narrow monographs for grand sweeps across the centuries.

ECONOMIST: An old approach to history is new again