Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
Penguin UK
Published on
Feb 28, 2008
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
5.09x1.34x7.75 Inches
Weight
1.16 Pounds
About the Book
'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.