Название: The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914
Автор: Richard J. Evans
Издательство: Viking
Серия: The Penguin History of Europe
ISBN: 0670024570
Год: 2016
Язык: английский
Страниц: 848
Формат: epub
Размер: 58.79 MB

Эта книга - история Европы с 1815 по 1914 год, следующая книга по порядку из серии "The Penguin History of Europe" после предыдущего тома серии "В погоне за славой" (2007), который охватывает период с 1648 до 1815.

This book is a history of Europe from 1815 to 1914, following on sequentially in the Penguin History of Europe from the previous volume in the series, The Pursuit of Glory (2007), which covers the period 1648 to 1815.

Richard J. Evans, bestselling historian of Nazi Germany, returns with a monumental new addition to the acclaimed Penguin History of Europe series, covering the period from the fall of Napoleon to the outbreak of World War I. Evans’s gripping narrative ranges across a century of social and national conflicts, from the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 to the unification of both Germany and Italy, from the Russo-Turkish wars to the Balkan upheavals that brought this era of relative peace and growing prosperity to an end. Among the great themes it discusses are the decline of religious belief and the rise of secular science and medicine, the journey of art, music, and literature from Romanticism to Modernism, the replacement of old-regime punishments by the modern prison, the end of aristocratic domination and the emergence of industrial society, and the dramatic struggle of feminists for women’s equality and emancipation. Uniting the era’s broad-ranging transformations was the pursuit of power in all segments of life, from the banker striving for economic power to the serf seeking to escape the power of his landlord, from the engineer asserting society’s power over the environment to the psychiatrist attempting to exert science’s power over human nature itself.

The first single-volume history of the century, this comprehensive and sweeping account gives the reader a magnificently human picture of Europe in the age when it dominated the rest of the globe.