Its been a superb year for history but Augustus the Strong ranks up there with the very very best! I cant recommend it strongly enough - Simon Sebag-MontefioreThe wonderful story of one of the worst monarchs in European history, told with enormou...More info...
George I was not the most charismatic of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in England but he was probably the most important. He was certainly the luckiest.Born the youngest son of a landless German duke, he was taken by repeated strokes of...More info...
SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the 19th - a force of nature, a caustic,...More info...
Once musicians such as Mozart were little more than court servants; now they are multimillionaire superstars wielding more power than politicians. How did this extraordinary change come about? Tim Blannings brilliantly enjoyable book examines how ev...More info...
A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution...More info...
(Pub. Date: 15-Nov-2010, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674417274)
A distinguished historian chronicles the rise of music and musicians in the West from lowly balladeers to masters employed by fickle patrons, to the great composers of genius, to todays rock stars. How, he asks, did music progress from subordinate s...More info...
Three decades ago, Francois Furet famously announced that the French Revolution was over. Napoleons armies ceased to march around Europe long ago, and Louis XVIII even returned to occupy the throne of his guillotined brother. And yet the Revolution...More info...
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...More info...
