Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent #1 on the Non-Fiction Best Book List

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03.12.2014

Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent has been selected as the #1 non-fiction book on the Non-Fiction Best Book List (Sachbuch Bestenliste) in December 2014.

The jury states that: »In his history of neoliberal Europe Ther shows vividly and astonishingly readable that the transformation of Eastern European countries had a delayed, but drastic and challenging, impact on Western European Contries as well […]. The crises in Europe is more serious then we would like to believe and are able to comprehend. Ther illustrates where cause and effect can be found.«

The Non-Fiction Best Book List is selected by an independent jury and published by Süddeutsche Zeitung and Norddeutscher Rundfunk.

We are also delighted to announce that the English world rights for The New Order on the Old Continent have recently been sold to Princeton University Press.

For more information please visit the author's Foreign Rights Website or contact the respective Rights Manager.


Philipp Ther, born in 1967, teaches Modern European and East European History at the University of Vienna. He has already published five books in English, and his publications have been translated into various other languages. He has received several prizes and awards, including the John-F.-Kennedy Fellowship at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University (in 1997/98), the 2012 Translation Award of the German Book Trade Association for Die dunkle Seite der Nationalstaaten: ›ethnische Säuberungen‹ im modernen Europa, which was also nominated as Academic Non-Fiction Book of the Year (2018, category Humanities, Social and Cultural Science) by the Austrian Ministry for Science, Reseach and Economy. He received the 2015 Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for...

Philipp Ther, born in 1967, teaches Modern European and East European History at the University of Vienna. He has already published five books in...


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