The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815

基本信息

Paperback: 736頁

出版社: Penguin UK; 4th Printing (2008年2月28日)

語種： English

ISBN-10: 014016667X

ISBN-13: 978-0140166675

產品尺寸及重量: 129 x 198 x 32mm | 524g

書籍簡介

1648年，三十年戰爭結束時，歐洲仍處於世界舞台的邊緣。1815年，拿破崙兵敗滑鐵盧，此時的歐洲已將世界其他地區甩在後面。 這是啟蒙和理性的時代，也是信仰與情感的時代，是進步的時代，充滿希望，也是停滯的時代，揭示着種種成就的虛幻。在喧譁與騷動、變革和擴張中，歐洲一步步遠離中世紀，走向現代世界權力的中心。

'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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★輝煌榮耀的歷史著作。——《紐約時報》

★彷彿站在奧林匹斯山上俯瞰近代歐洲的歷史，恢宏、攝人心魄、無所不包。——《星期日泰晤士報》

★巧妙展現歐洲啟蒙時代的矛盾和張力，細節準確，敍述穩當，妙語迭出。——基思•托馬斯，牛津大學歷史學系教授

★深刻的見識、豐富的學識、敏鋭的洞察力、層次豐富的敍事手法成就了這部鉅著。——《經濟學人》

★幾十年未見的歷史佳作。全局把握這段紛繁複雜的歷史，精彩絕倫。——《星期日電訊報》

作者簡介

蒂莫西·布萊寧(Tim Blanning)，劍橋大學現代歐洲史榮休教授、英國國家學術院院士，著有《浪漫主義革命》、《腓特烈大帝》等十餘部著作。

Tim Blanning is the author of a number of major works on eighteenth century Europe, including The Pursuit of Glory : Europe 1648-1815, The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture and Joseph II. He is Emeritus Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. His latest book, Frederick the Great, won the British Academy Medal 2016.