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    The Pursuit of Glory

    The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815

    Part of The Penguin History of Europe

    Author Tim Blanning
    Edited by David Cannadine
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    On sale May 31, 2007 | 752 Pages | 9781101202456
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    "History writing at its glorious best."--The New York Times

    "A triumphant success. [Blanning] brings knowledge, expertise, sound judgment and a colorful narrative style."--The Economist

    The New York Times bestselling volume in the Penguin History of Europe series

    Between the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Battle of Waterloo, Europe underwent an extraordinary transformatoin that saw five of the modern world's great revolutions--scientific, industrial, American, French, and romantic. In this much-admired addition to the monumental Penguin History of Europe series, Tim Blanning brilliantly investigates the forces that transformed Europe from a medieval society into a vigorous powerhose of the modern world. Blanning renders this vast subject immediate and absorbing by making fresh connections between the most mundane details of life and the major cultural, political, and technological transformations that birthed the modern age.
    The Pursuit of Glory
    List of Illustrations
    Maps
    1. Europe in the era of Louis XIV
    2. Europe in the eighteenth century
    3. Europe in 1809
    4. Europe in 1815
    5. The Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy in the eighteenth century
    Preface
    Introduction

    Part One: Life and Death

    1. Communications
    2. People
    3. Trade and Manufacturing
    4. Agriculture and the Rural World

    Part Two: Power

    5. Rulers and Their Elites
    6. Reform and Revolution

    Part Three: Religion and Culture

    7. Religion and the Churches
    8. Court and Country
    9. Palaces and Gardens
    10. The Culture of Feeling and the Culture of Reason

    Part Four: War and Peace

    11. From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peace of Nystad
    12. From the Peace of Nystad to the French Revolutionary Wars
    13. The Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon

    Conclusion
    Suggested Reading
    Index

    Until his retirement in 2009, Tim Blanning was a professor of modern European history at the University of Cambridge, and he remains a fellow of Sidney Sussex College and of the British Academy. He is the general editor of The Oxford History of Modern Europe and The Short Oxford History of Europe. He is also the author of The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture, which won a prestigious German prize and was short-listed for the British Academy Book Prize, the New York Times bestseller The Pursuit of Glory, The Triumph of Music, and The Romantic Revolution. In 2000 he was awarded a Pilkington Prize for teaching by the University of Cambridge. View titles by Tim Blanning

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    "History writing at its glorious best."--The New York Times

    "A triumphant success. [Blanning] brings knowledge, expertise, sound judgment and a colorful narrative style."--The Economist

    The New York Times bestselling volume in the Penguin History of Europe series

    Between the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Battle of Waterloo, Europe underwent an extraordinary transformatoin that saw five of the modern world's great revolutions--scientific, industrial, American, French, and romantic. In this much-admired addition to the monumental Penguin History of Europe series, Tim Blanning brilliantly investigates the forces that transformed Europe from a medieval society into a vigorous powerhose of the modern world. Blanning renders this vast subject immediate and absorbing by making fresh connections between the most mundane details of life and the major cultural, political, and technological transformations that birthed the modern age.

    Table of Contents

    The Pursuit of Glory
    List of Illustrations
    Maps
    1. Europe in the era of Louis XIV
    2. Europe in the eighteenth century
    3. Europe in 1809
    4. Europe in 1815
    5. The Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy in the eighteenth century
    Preface
    Introduction

    Part One: Life and Death

    1. Communications
    2. People
    3. Trade and Manufacturing
    4. Agriculture and the Rural World

    Part Two: Power

    5. Rulers and Their Elites
    6. Reform and Revolution

    Part Three: Religion and Culture

    7. Religion and the Churches
    8. Court and Country
    9. Palaces and Gardens
    10. The Culture of Feeling and the Culture of Reason

    Part Four: War and Peace

    11. From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peace of Nystad
    12. From the Peace of Nystad to the French Revolutionary Wars
    13. The Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon

    Conclusion
    Suggested Reading
    Index

    Author

    Until his retirement in 2009, Tim Blanning was a professor of modern European history at the University of Cambridge, and he remains a fellow of Sidney Sussex College and of the British Academy. He is the general editor of The Oxford History of Modern Europe and The Short Oxford History of Europe. He is also the author of The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture, which won a prestigious German prize and was short-listed for the British Academy Book Prize, the New York Times bestseller The Pursuit of Glory, The Triumph of Music, and The Romantic Revolution. In 2000 he was awarded a Pilkington Prize for teaching by the University of Cambridge. View titles by Tim Blanning

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