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  • The Pursuit of Glory

    The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815

    by Tim Blanning ...
    Series series The Penguin History of Europe
    **"History writing at its glorious best."--The New York Times"A triumphant success. [Blanning] brings knowledge, expertise, sound judgment and a colorful narrative style."--The EconomistThe New York Times bestselling volume in the Penguin History of Europe series**Between the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Battle of Waterloo, Europe underwent an extraordinary transformatoin that saw five of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Frederick the Great

    King of Prussia

    by Tim Blanning ...
    The definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of Europe and changed the course of historyFew figures loom as large in European history as Frederick the Great. When he inherited the Prussian crown in 1740, he ruled over a kingdom of scattered territories, a minor Germanic backwater. By the end of his reign, the much larger and consolidated Prussia ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • George I (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Lucky King

    by Tim Blanning ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    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 good fortune to become, first the ruler of a major state in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and then the sovereign of three kingdoms (England, ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • Augustus The Strong

    A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco

    by Tim Blanning ...
    From the acclaimed author of The Pursuit of Glory and Frederick the Great, a riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of 18th-century Poland and Saxony - and his catastrophic reign.Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2025Shortlisted for the 2025 Apollo Book of the Year Award'It's been a superb year for history but Augustus the Strong ranks up there with the very very ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • The Romantic Revolution

    A History

    by Tim Blanning ...
    Series Book 34 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “A splendidly pithy and provocative introduction to the culture of Romanticism.”—The Sunday Times“[Tim Blanning is] in a particularly good position to speak of the arrival of Romanticism on the Euorpean scene, and he does so with a verve, a breadth, and an authority that exceed every expectation.”—National ReviewFrom the preeminent historian of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Triumph of Music

    The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art

    by Tim Blanning ...
    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 today’s rock stars. How, he asks, did music progress from subordinate status to its present position of supremacy among the creative arts? Mozart was literally booted out of the service of the Archbishop of Salzburg “with ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    The Pursuit of Glory

    The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815

    by Tim Blanning ...
    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    35 hours 12 min

    The New York Times bestselling volume in the Penguin History of Europe seriesBetween the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Battle of Waterloo, Europe underwent an extraordinary transformation that saw five of the modern world's great revolutions—scientific, industrial, American, French, and romantic. In this much-admired addition to the monumental Penguin History of Europe series, Tim Blanning ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Global Age

    Europe 1950-2017

    by Ian Kershaw ...
    Narrated by James Langton ...
    Series Audiobook 9 - The Penguin History of Europe

    Unabridged

    27 hours

    The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and BackAfter the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back,' the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    The Inheritance of Rome

    Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000

    by Chris Wickham ...
    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    32 hours 6 min

    Prizewinning historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the Dark Ages in European history with a work of remarkable scope and rigorous yet accessible scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of new material and featuring a thoughtful synthesis of historical and archaeological approaches, Wickham argues that these centuries were critical in the formulation of European identity. Far from being ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • In the Shadow of the Empress

    The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters

    by Nancy Goldstone ...
    The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa—one of the most renowned women rulers in history—and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France.Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of uncommon strength and vision, the only woman ever to inherit and rule ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • President Garfield

    From Radical to Unifier

    by CW Goodyear ...
    An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” (The Washington Post) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America’s twentieth president—James Garfield.In “the most comprehensive Garfield biography in almost fifty years” (The Wall Street Journal), C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive firebrand and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Empress and the English Doctor

    How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus

    by Lucy Ward ...
    A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FARShortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022‘Sparkling history…with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking’ The TimesA killer virus…an all-powerful Empress…an encounter cloaked in secrecy…the astonishing true story.Within living memory, smallpox was a dreaded disease. Over human history it has killed... ... Read more

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