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Title:

THE PURSUIT OF GLORY
EUROPE 1648-1815

By:

Tim Blanning

Format:

Paperback

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014016667X

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9780140166675

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Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

28 February, 2008

Pages:

736

Description:

Brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history - from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon.

Synopsis:

'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanThe Pursuit of Glory brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history - from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon. Tim Blanning depicts the lives of ordinary people and the dominant personalities of the age (Louis XIV, Frederick the Great, Napoleon), and explores an era of almost unprecedented change, growth and cultural, political and technological ferment that shaped the societies and economies of entire countries.

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