The new volume in the acclaimed Penguin History of Europe series takes on the greater eighteenth century in all its revolutionary glory
Here is an enormously entertaining, rich, and provocative account of a vivid and magnificent era in Europe's history. Tim Blanning has for many years been one of the foremost writers on the eighteenth century. The culmination of many years? work, "The Pursuit of Glory" is an accessible and enjoyable account of Europe from the end of the Thirty Years? War to the Battle of Waterloo?an era of immense change and cultural, political, and technological ferment. Spanning the years 1648?1815, "The Pursuit of Glory" takes us from the Enlightenment through the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. As interested in the art and music of the period as in the great dynastic and revolutionary wars, as concerned with the lives of ordinary people as with the great rulers on horseback, "The Pursuit of Glory" turns a compelling spotlight on one of history's most unique and fascinating eras.
The new volume in the acclaimed Penguin History of Europe series takes on the greater eighteenth century in all its revolutionary glory
Here is an enormously entertaining, rich, and provocative account of a vivid and magnificent era in Europe's history. Tim Blanning has for many years been one of the foremost writers on the eighteenth century. The culmination of many years? work, "The Pursuit of Glory" is an accessible and enjoyable account of Europe from the end of the Thirty Years? War to the Battle of Waterloo?an era of immense change and cultural, political, and technological ferment. Spanning the years 1648?1815, "The Pursuit of Glory" takes us from the Enlightenment through the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. As interested in the art and music of the period as in the great dynastic and revolutionary wars, as concerned with the lives of ordinary people as with the great rulers on horseback, "The Pursuit of Glory" turns a compelling spotlight on one of history's most unique and fascinating eras.
In 1648 the Peace of Westphalia brought the Thirty Years? War to an
end. Although the Europeans didn?t know it, of course, this
devastating conflict would prove to be the last of the Wars of
Religion that had been tearing the continent apart since the start
of the Reformation in 1517. Europe was entering a new age.
Despite the Renaissance, it was still a largely medieval world in
its outlook, infrastructure and government in 1648. Europe was less
wealthy and, in many ways, less economically advanced than other
parts of the world, like Mughal India and China. By 1815, the year
of the Battle of Waterloo, Europe was recognizably modern. It was
also far in advance of the rest of the world economically,
scientifically, technologically, politically and militarily.
So the period between these two dates is the very hinge of European
history. It is no small accomplishment to cover so vast a subject
adequately in a single volume. But Tim Blanning, a professor of
modern historyn
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