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The pursuit of glory fortunately integrates the prussian baltic and russian developments with the west effectively
The period from the peace of westphalia to the congress of vienna has the virtue for the highend popular historian of being clo... Read More
Wilson tried to revive it with the league of nations but to no avail and it broke down even more spectacularly in 19391945
Traveling a mear 20 miles would have cost two or three years in wages and would have taken two or three days with the likely ho... Read More
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Blanning is a fluent sometimes witty writer
Competitiveness
Whether you are a proud or a shamed european i recommend you read this dense but lush history
If it means anything to you i really dont do much of rewatching movies and i certainly dont do much of rereading of books as th... Read More
The pursuit of glory which means simply the need to be acknowledged as greater than others and thus entitled to impose ones vie... Read More
Its main rival had previously been a dynastic amalgam called the hapsburg empire
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- This product had a total of 334 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 19 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The title the blurbs on the back and the cover all give you the idea that this book is going to be about revolutions in europe during the period quoted 16481815
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Weirdly this has little to do with whats in the book however
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This occasionally happens when a publisher thats my guess anyway imagines that if he tells you what the book actually is no one will buy it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The only narrative involved is the ending part of the book about 150 pages where the author discusses the course of politics during the era
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This mainly winds up being a very brief account of all the wars france fought in during the era since france fought in basically every war that was fought between those two dates
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Because of space limitations i assume the narrative part of the book is very cursory
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This of course took place after napoleon went into exile so its inclusion here is rather problematic
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
A second is the scientific revolution the inclusion of which makes some sense but the book never really addresses the issue per se
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