In 1648, Europe was essentially a medieval society. By 1815, it was the powerhouse of the modern world. In exuberant prose, Tim Blanning investigates “the very hinge of European history” ( The New York Times ) between the end of the Thirty Y earsÂ’ War and the Battle of Waterloo that witnessed five of the modern worldÂ’s great revolutions: scientific, industrial, American, Fr...(展开全部)

In 1648, Europe was essentially a medieval society. By 1815, it was the powerhouse of the modern world. In exuberant prose, Tim Blanning investigates “the very hinge of European history” ( The New York Times ) between the end of the Thirty Y earsÂ’ War and the Battle of Waterloo that witnessed five of the modern worldÂ’s great revolutions: scientific, industrial, American, Fr...(展开全部)

[英]蒂莫西·布莱宁(Tim Blanning)，剑桥大学现代欧洲史荣休教授、英国国家学术院院士，著有《浪漫主义革命》《腓特烈大帝》等十余部著作。

"The 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 and Napo...(展开全部)

[英]蒂莫西·布莱宁(Tim Blanning)，剑桥大学现代欧洲史荣休教授、英国国家学术院院士，著有《浪漫主义革命》《腓特烈大帝》等十余部著作。

"The 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 and Napo...(展开全部)

[英]蒂莫西·布莱宁(Tim Blanning)，剑桥大学现代欧洲史荣休教授、英国国家学术院院士，著有《浪漫主义革命》《腓特烈大帝》等十余部著作。

[英]蒂莫西·布莱宁(Tim Blanning)，剑桥大学现代欧洲史荣休教授、英国国家学术院院士，著有《浪漫主义革命》《腓特烈大帝》等十余部著作。

An Economist Best Book of the Year “Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating.”—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 Pen...(展开全部)

An Economist Best Book of the Year “Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating.”—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 Pen...(展开全部)