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'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New Statesman
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, 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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The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects ― New Statesman

With five volumes now out, the Penguin History of Europe series ... is shaping up to be the best general account available, superseding all previous ones ― Economist

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Tim Blanning is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. His other books include The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture and The Rise and Fall of the French Revolution.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Press; 1st edition (28 February 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 736 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 014016667X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140166675
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.93 x 3.4 x 19.69 cm

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Wesley Gomes

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Chegou no tempo previsto e é um livro muito interessante. Uma coisa curiosa é que as páginas tem um cheiro doce por algum motivo.

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Herbert Esche

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Reviewed in Germany on 29 October 2021

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Englische Historiker gehören doch zu den Besten heutzutage. Ein sehr in die Tiefe gehenden Buch, sehr informativ und an keiner Stelle zu langatmig.

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Superb period history

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The 167-year history between the Treaty of Westphalia and Waterloo is intricate and typically excruicatingly documented in historically detailed ambition. Louis the XIV is revolting. The Spanish and Holy Roman Hapsburgs are 10 generation inbreds. Most interestingly, the author (correctly in my opinon) identifies the 2nd 100-years war these mental midget sycophants unleashed on the continents historical vertical and horizontal lives of the 'everyman' lifestyle in spite of its unworthy kings.

The major book divisions are:

“Life and Death”
“Power”
“Religion and Culture”
“War & Peace”

The European cross-cultural, trans-national evolution, industry, and Roman era transportation rediscoveries combine with the daily work on the farm and city, life at home, caring for the aged and treating illness, diet, industry, etc. The story comes alive. The river routes and canals, the sea network, roads, mail, regional trade, and tariff regulations transcend the royal contention history. Here is human reality within the context of the puny and towering personalities, tyrants and cowards, mobs and national bloc factions as confronted by the average John Smith/Schmidt/Smit/Smitjh family units.

I loved wandering the back alleyways the Kindle edition enables. So many curious stories, too many to explore. The alley diversions likely doubled the time I took to enjoy the book.

I disagree strongly with other reader notions of academic trivia, timeline discontinuity, or excruciating detail. The narrative life of the farmer/craftsmen necessarily demands the progression sans the Sun King. It’s a month-long deep dive with integrated excursions into points of interest the reader can choose. It’s an exploration.
It's high-quality work. I’d recommend the read to even the most well-read history fan.

The 'Pursuit of Glory' fortunately integrates the Prussian, Baltic and Russian developments with the west effectively. The author had to cut through so much propoganda of the day to write this history.

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Reviewed in Canada on 28 December 2018

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There are interesting times in Europe as the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and the many revolutions to come in 1848, merely a few years before the unifications of Italy and Germany and the prelude to WWI.

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Focused yet comprehensive

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The period of European history from the Peace of Westphalia to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. was one stuffed full of history's 'great men': Louis XIV, Kant and Napoleon, to take a few examples. It might be surprising, therefore, that Tim Blanning's history of this era, especially with its title, The Pursuit of Glory, starts not on the subject of such men and their great deeds but with an extensive discussion on the various European roads systems during the period.

The reason for this surprising, and surprisingly interesting, introduction is that there are two approaches for a subject matter that is this vast in terms of both time-period and geography. One is to attempt a chronological narrative, with analysis interweaving issues domestic politics, society, technology etc. across a linear time series. This is the approach taken by Richard J. Evans in the next instalment of the Penguin History of Europe series of which this book forms a part. The other approach, the one taken by Blanning, is to break up the huge subject matter into smaller, more manageable sub-topics. So, Blanning offers us these sub-topics split into four broad groups, which we are treated to in turn, 'Life and Death', 'Power', 'Religion and Culture', and 'War and Peace'.

Regardless of the approach taken, a danger for a book with this vast a scope, both in times of time period and geography, is that it ends up being a kaleidoscopic offering of information, fragmented and with each piece unconnected to the rest. Another, related danger is that its contents end up being stretched too thin. Blanning manages to avoid this by dealing with the structural factors first, like advances in communications, agriculture, industry etc., before dealing with the factors more contingent on individual agency, like the 'War and Peace' section that covers foreign policy and relations between states. He also tends to keep the discussion within each sub-topic focused on a specific debate. For example, when writing about the Enlightenment and the period's high culture, he focuses on the dichotomy between the 'culture of reason' and the 'culture of feeling', i.e. between rationalism and romanticism. While no doubt necessitating simplifications, organising principles like these keep the reader's attention focused and the book's content manageable.

One such dichotomy that I found particularly interesting when reading the book's section on palaces and gardens was between the highly ordered French style of garden that reached its apotheosis at Versailles and the natural, English style. The former came to be associated with authoritarianism, not least that of Louis XIV, and the latter with the liberty that the English seemed to enjoy in contrast. Having written books on Frederick the Great, Joseph II and the French revolution and ensuing revolutionary wars, Blanning is authoritative when illuminating the high politics and geopolitics of the era. The travails of the well meaning and idealistic but overzealous liberal, reformist Austrian Emperor Joseph II are especially interesting because I doubt many Anglophone readers (myself included) will have the same appreciation of the political history of Hapsburg monarchy as for that of, say, Britain or France. All in all, Blanning has produced a volume that covers one of the most dynamic episodes in human history in a way that is focused and accessible but at the same time manages to be comprehensive. He is even able to make those road systems seem interesting.

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