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Frederick the Great by Tim Blanning
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
'Highly readable and deeply researched' - Andrew Roberts 'Masterful ...brilliantly brings to life one of the most complex characters of modern European history' - Sunday Telegraph 'It is sure to be the standard English-language account for many years. It instructs; it entertains; and it surprises' - Phi ...Show more
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia by Tim Blanning
$69.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the 19th - a force of nature, a caustic, ruthless, brilliant military commander, a monarch of exceptional energy and talent, and a knowledgeable patron of artists, architects and writers ...Show more
Pursuit of Glory by Tim Blanning
$79.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In "The Pursuit of Glory", Tim Blanning brings to life one of the most extraordinary and dynamic periods in Europe's history: from the desolate, battered and introvert continent of the end of the Thirty Years War to the overwhelmingly dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Na ...Show more
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe, 1648-1815 by Tim Blanning
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
"The 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 th ...Show more
The Romantic Revolution by Tim Blanning
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third - the romantic revolution - was perhaps the most fundamental and far-reaching. From it derive virtually all the cultu ...Show more
The Romantic Revolution by Tim Blanning
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third - the romantic revolution - was perhaps the most fundamental and far-reaching. From Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge and ...Show more
The Triumph of Music: Composers, Musicians and Their Audiences, 1700 to the Present by Tim Blanning
$26.95 AUD
Category: Music
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 a ...Show more
The Triumph of Music : Composers, musicians and their audiences, 1700 to the present by Tim Blanning
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
The power and prestige of music in the modern world has given its practitioners extraordinary wealth and moral authority. This is taken for granted now and yet for much of Europe's history musicians have been mere servants. The rise of music and musicians in the West is the subject of Tim Blanning's fas ...Show more
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