The Pursuit of Power

Resumen del libro

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, political and technological changes. It was a time where what was seen as modern with amazing speed appeared old-fashioned, where huge cities sprang up in a generation, new European countries were created and where, for the first time, humans could communicate almost instantly over thousands of miles. In the period bounded by the Battle of Waterloo and the outbreak of World War I, Europe dominated the rest of the world as never before or since: this book breaks new ground by showing how the continent shaped, and was shaped by, its interactions with other parts of the globe.
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Biografía del autor

Sir Richard J. Evans (Londres, 1947) es presidente del Wolfson College de Cambridge y Provost del Gresham College de Boston. Hasta 2014 fue Regius Professor de historia en la Universidad de Cambridge. En 1994 recibió la Medalla de Hamburgo del Arte y la Ciencia por servicios culturales a la ciudad. Sus libros previos incluyen In Defense of History (1997), Telling Lies about Hitler (2001), La llegada del Tercer Reich (Península, 2005), El Tercer Reich en el poder (Península, 2007), El Tercer Reich en guerra (Península, 2011) y La lucha por el poder (Crítica, 2017). Fue nombrado Sir en 2012.