The Pursuit Of Power: Europe: 1815-1914 (penguin History Of Europe)
by Richard J. Evans /
2016 / English / PDF
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Richard J. 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, 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.
Richard J. 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, 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.