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1 de set. de 2016 · The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century Europe to create an extraordinarily rich, surprising and entertaining panorama of a continent undergoing drastic transformation. The book aims to reignite the sense of wonder that permeated this remarkable era, as rulers and ruled navigated overwhelming cultural ...
25 de out. de 2016 · The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century Europe to create an extraordinarily rich, surprising and entertaining panorama of a continent undergoing drastic transformation. The book aims to reignite the sense of wonder that permeated this remarkable era, as rulers and ruled navigated overwhelming cultural ...
9 de fev. de 2017 · 5 - Balzac, Money and the Pursuit of Power. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 February 2017. By. Allan H. Pasco. Edited by. Owen Heathcote and. Andrew Watts. Chapter. Get access.
1 de jan. de 2022 · Covering every part of the continent from Iceland to Sicily, Ireland to Russia, Richard J. Evans delivers a masterly survey that pays due attention to the wars, revolutions, and political upheavals of the age, and sets the politics of power in a broad context of social, economic, and cultural change.
15 de nov. de 2013 · Only in our own time, suggests McNeill, are command economies replacing the market control of large-scale human effort. The Pursuit of Power does not solve the problems of the present, but its discoveries, hypotheses, and sheer breadth of learning do offer a perspective on our current fears and, as McNeill hopes, "a ground for wiser action."
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- William H. McNeill
Doğrulanmış Alışveriş. Professor McNeill describes this 1982 book as a "footnote" to his famous 1963 The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community , and as a companion to his even more famous 1976 Plagues and Peoples . The subject of "The Pursuit of Power" is warfare rather than disease, as in "Plagues and People", but Prof ...
