The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 (The Penguin History of

The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 (The Penguin History of Europe)
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An Economist Best Book of the Year

â€œSweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating.â€â€”Stephen Schuker, The Wall Street Journal

From the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony; the latest volume in the Penguin History of Europe series

Richard J. Evans, bestselling historian of Nazi Germany, returns with a monumental new addition to the acclaimed Penguin History of Europe series, covering the period from the fall of Napoleon to the outbreak of World War I. Evansâ€™s gripping narrative ranges across a century of social and national conflicts, from the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 to the unification of both Germany and Italy, from the Russo-Turkish wars to the Balkan upheavals that brought this era of relative peace and growing prosperity to an end. Among the great themes it discusses are the decline of religious belief and the rise of secular science and medicine, the journey of art, music, and literature from Romanticism to Modernism, the replacement of old-regime punishments by the modern prison, the end of aristocratic domination and the emergence of industrial society, and the dramatic struggle of feminists for womenâ€™s equality and emancipation. Uniting the eraâ€™s broad-ranging transformations was the pursuit of power in all segments of life, from the banker striving for economic power to the serf seeking to escape the power of his landlord, from the engineer asserting societyâ€™s power over the environment to the psychiatrist attempting to exert scienceâ€™s power over human nature itself.
Â Â Â Â Â The first single-volume history of the century, this comprehensive and sweeping account gives the reader a magnificently human picture of Europe in the age when it dominated the rest of the globe.
Country USA
Brand Viking Drill & Tool
Manufacturer Viking
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780670024575
ReleaseDate 2016-11-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780670024575

Country	USA
Brand	Viking Drill & Tool
Manufacturer	Viking
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780670024575
ReleaseDate	2016-11-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780670024575

The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 (The Penguin History of Europe)

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