[aaus-list] Timothy Snyder's The Red Prince, TODAY, 7 p.m., Barker Center at Harvard

[Seegel, Steven]

The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute is pleased to sponsor a public book
launch of Timothy Snyder's The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg
Archduke (Basic Books, 2008).  
 
Professor Snyder is an Alumnus of the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, Class of 2000. 

The June 25 book launch inaugurates the 38th Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute.  It will take place from 7-9 p.m. in the Thompson Room, on the first floor of the Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02143, at Harvard University.  
 
The event is free and open to the entire community.  A wine-and-cheese reception will follow.

Information on book availability can be found in the announcement, and a limited number of copies will be available for purchase at the event.  Please do not hesitate to contact me <sseegel at worcester.edu> for details.

Cordially,

Steven Seegel
Director, 2008 Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute



The 2008 Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute invites the community to a

*Public Lecture and Book Launch*

*The Red Prince: The Ukrainian Mission of a Habsburg Archduke (June 2008,
Basic Books)*

*by Timothy Snyder
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of History
Yale University

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Thompson Room, Barker Center
Harvard University
12 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA*



In this exhilarating narrative history,_ The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of
a Habsburg Archduke_ (2008), prize-winning historian Timothy Snyder offers
an indelible portrait of an aristocrat whose life personifies the wrenching
upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century, as the rule of empire
gave way to the new politics of nationalism.


About the Book

Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court
regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the
collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, every so often, a dress. He
could handle a saber, a pistol, a rudder, or a golf club; he handled women
by necessity and men for pleasure. He spoke the Italian of his archduchess
mother, the German of his archduke father, the English of his British royal
friends, the Polish of the country his father wished to rule. And the
Ukrainian of the land Wilhelm wished to rule himself.

Coming of age during the First World War, Wilhelm repudiated his family to
fight alongside Ukrainian peasants. By turns he became an ally of German
imperialists, a notorious French lover, an angry Austrian monarchist, a calm
opponent of Hitler, and a French spy against Stalin. _The Red Prince_
captures an extraordinary moment in the history of Europe, in which the
order of the past was giving way to an undefined future - and in which
everything, including identity itself, seemed up for grabs.

About the Author

Timothy Snyder is Professor of History at Yale University. He received his
doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, and has held fellowships in
Paris, Vienna, Warsaw, and at Harvard. Winner of the George Louis Beer Prize
of the American Historical Association for his book The Reconstruction of
Nations, his most recent book, Sketches from a Secret War, was awarded the
Pro Historia Polonorum by the First Congress of Foreign Researchers of
Poland for the best book on Polish history by a foreign author published in
the last five years. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.


The Red Prince: Now Available through Basic Books
* A limited number of books (ISBN: 9780465002375) will be available for sale
at the event.
* To order a copy, contact Cassie.Nelson at perseusbooks.com
<mailto:Cassie.Nelson at perseusbooks.com> or see:
www.perseusbooksgroup.com/basic/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0465002374



Dr. Steven Seegel
Director, 2008 Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute
Assistant Professor of History, Worcester State College
Harvard University
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02143
office: (617) 496-6001
cell: (865) 437-7832
fax: (617) 495-8097