T. C. W. Blanning

An accessible chronicle of European history from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the Battle of Waterloo features vivid coverage of such events as the Enlightenment period, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic era.

Europe, 1648-1815

The Pursuit of Glory

Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third - the romantic revolution - was perhaps the most fundamental and far-reaching. From it derive virtually all the cultural axioms of the modern world: the stress on genius, originality and individual expression; the dominance of music; the obsession with sexuality, dreams and the subconscious; the public as patron; the worship of art and artists. Tim Blanning traces the evolution of romanticism from Rousseau's conversion-experience on the road to Vincennes in 1749. Contrary to received wisdom, Blanning argues that the 18th century was an intensely religious age, but one increasingly dissatisfied with organised religion. Art and artists began to fill this void. By the mid-19th century, realism had made a comeback but fin-de-siecle and post-modernism reasserted the romantic agenda.

The Romantic Revolution

Old Regime Europe 1660-1789

The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture

From great composers and celebrated masters hired by notable patrons to the rock stars of today, the history of music and the celebrity status received by some its creators are reviewed, along with specific chapters dealing with nationalism, sex, and race and its impact on society, culture, and politics.

The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art

The Triumph of Music

Robin Osborne

The complete Short Oxford History of Europe (series editor: Professor T C W Blanning) will cover the history of Europe from Classical Greece to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues, including society, economy, religion, politics, and culture, head-on in chapters that will be at once wide-ranging surveys and searching analyses. Each book is specifically designed with the non-specialist reader in mind; but theauthority of the contributors and the vigour of the interpretations will make them necessary and challenging reading for fellow a ...

Classical Greece, 500-323 BC

pursuit of glory

عمراني، عبد الودود

Forfatteren prøver at vise, hvordan den romantiske revolution har ændret verden for 200 år siden

الثورة الرومنسية

Europe 1789-1914 (Short Oxford History of Europe)

The Nineteenth Century

A succinct chronicle by the prize-winning author of The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture evaluates the lesser-known Romantic Revolution as a fundamental and far-reaching period while revealing the range of modern cultural axioms it inspired, from views about genius and sexuality to evolving theories about dreams and the subconscious.

A History

'a superb volume, complete with maps, and tells the story of a continent from the 18th century to the present day.' -Irish Times

The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe

Written by eleven contributors of international standing, this book offers a readable and authoritative account of Europe's turbulent history from the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the present day. Each chapter portrays both change and continuity, revolutions and stability, and covers the political, economic, social, cultural, and military life of Europe. This book provides a better understanding of modern Europe, how it came to be what it is, and where it may be going in the future.

The Oxford History of Modern Europe

Aristocrats Versus Bourgeois?

The French Revolution

Europa cambió más rápida y radicalmente durante el siglo XIX que durante cualquier otro período de la historia. Una explosión de población, una revolución de las comunicaciones, la masiva alfabetización, la secularización, urbanización, imperialismo, fueron sólo algunos de los muchos caminos por los que las vidas de los europeos de todas las clases cambiaron dramáticamente. El siglo, sin embargo, compaginó el surgimiento de conceptos innovadores y radicalmente actuales –liberalismo, conservadurismo, nacionalismo, socialismo, racismo- con un grado sorprendente de continuidad y armonía en otras cuestiones, especialmente en las relaciones internacionales. En los seis capítulos que conforman este libro, expertos de la centuria pasan revista a las grandes cuestiones relacionadas con la política, la proyección internacional, la historia imperial, las cuestiones sociales, económicas y culturales del período.

Europa 1789-1914

El Siglo XIX

In this fascinating new account of Old Regime Europe, T.C.W. Blanning explores the cultural revolution which transformed eighteenth-century Europe. During this period the court culture exemplified by Louis XIV's Versailles was pushed from the centre to the margins by the emergence of a new kind of space - the public sphere. The author shows how many of the world's most important cultural institutions developed in this space: the periodical, the newspaper, the novel, the lending library,the coffee house, the voluntary association, the journalist, and the critic. It was here that public opinion staked its claim to be the ultimate arbiter of culture and politics. For the established order this new force was to prove both a challenge and an opportunity and the author's comparative study of power and culture shows how regimes sought to keep their balance as the ground moved beneath their feet. In the process he explains, among other things, why Britain won the 'Second HundredYears War' against France, how Prussia rose to become the dominant power in German-speaking Europe, and why the French monarchy collapsed.

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