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  • The Pursuit of Glory

    Europe 1648-1815

    by Tim Blanning ...
    'Let the nations rejoice: this history of Europe is a truly glorious book' John Adamson, Sunday TimesThe 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 ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Triumph of Music

    Composers, Musicians and Their Audiences, 1700 to the Present

    by Tim Blanning ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    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 Blanning's brilliantly enjoyable book examines how everything from the cult of the romantic to technology and travel all fed the inexorable rise of music in the West, making it the most dominant and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • 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

    $10.99 CAD

  • 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

    $12.99 CAD

  • 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

    $5.99 CAD

  • 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

    $7.99 CAD

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  • A Short History of British Architecture

    From Stonehenge to the Shard

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  • Republic

    Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660

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  • Downfall

    Putin, Prigozhin, and the fight for the future of Russia

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  • The Roads To Rome

    A Journey into Europe's past

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    A spellbinding history of South America, as heard on hit podcast The Rest Is History

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