Belgium: Long United, Long Divided

by Samuel Humes

This concise history describes the traditions and transitions that over two thousand years have developed in Belgium in a sense of shared identity, common government, and a centralized nation-state - and then over a few recent decades paved the way for Flemish-Walloon schism that now threatens to break up Belgium. It responds to the question: Why does a government, unified for more than 600 years, no longer seem capable of holding together a linguistically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849041466
• ISBN13: 9781849041461
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"