Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna, Paperback - Adam Zamoyski

Reducere. Following Napoleon's defeat and exile in 1814, the future of the European continent hung in the balance. Eager to negotiate a lasting, workable pea...

Reducere. "Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and importa...

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A superb study of one of the most important, romantic and dynamic figures of European history. 'A fine book ... the web of political intrigue unfol...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): David EdmondsIllustration(s): 23 b/w illus.Number of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 13...

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Structured around four interlocking themes-mobility, state development, commerce, and frontiers-this beautifully illustrated book brings new dimens...

Reducere. For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxie...

Reducere. This book tells the story of the invasion of France at the twilight of Napoleon's empire. With over a million men under arms throughout central Eur...

DescriptionWhile European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas ...

DescriptionHow social upheavals after the collapse of the French Empire shaped the lives and work of artists in early nineteenth-century EuropeAs t...

Reducere. The first history of the epic defeat of Napoleon's empire told from the Russian perspective. Though much has been written about Napoleon's doomed i...

Reducere. The controversial history of the Holy Roman Empire is back in print. Attacked by revisionist historians for its integration of church history and t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sorita D'EsteAuthor: David RankineHekate - Liminal Rites A Study of the Rituals, Magic and Symbols of the torch-bearing Tri...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marek Adam WozniakA military history of ancient Persia from its founding to the the end of the Sasanid Empire translated fr...

Reducere. In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign po...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1683, Vienna endured a two-month siege and a battle with the Ottoman Turks. At the last minute, they were relieved by an army led by ...

Reducere. Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--N...

A Times and Sunday Times book of the year for 2017, Greenblatt applies history, evolutionary biology and an engagement with world mythology to get ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book offers a historical study of the Masonic "Rite of Memphis-Misraim, " allegedly established in 1881. The "Rite of Memphis" and ...

Reducere. Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly or...

This volume celebrates the twenty-fifth Congress of Roman Frontier Studies. It presents the history of the congress accompanied by photographs and ...

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Adam ZamoyskiIllustration(s): 30 PhotosNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 233 x 156 x...

Reducere. The struggles for the city that saved Europe from the Ottoman Turkish Empire The battle between the Islamic east and the Christian west raged for c...

A revised and updated edition of Zamoyski's classic 1987 book The Polish Way, which has been out of print since 2001. Looks at the history of Polan...

Reducere. In Leadership Rites of Passage: The Journey of the Aspiring Leader and the Methods of the Mentor, accomplished author, Rick Tirrell, examines the s...

A long-overdue full-length biography of one of England's timeless greats

Reducere. As Adam Zamoyski set out to update The Polish Way, his bestselling first history of Poland, he realized the task required not so much re-writing as...

Reducere. In 1973, Leonard and Edith Ehrlich chose to undertake a daunting task that would ultimately become their greatest work: conducting over thirty year...

A revolutionary collection of black radical thought from a historic event in 1968.

Reducere. Two million copies of Peter Kelder's 1939 edition of the Eye of Revelation have been sold. This is Kelder's "lost" 1946 Edition, reprinted for the ...

The International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) is an important event among the large international community of mathematicians of Chin...

Reducere. Whether pulled from the folds of memory, channeled through the icons of Greek mythology and Roman Catholicism, or filtered through the lens of pop ...

Monumental cornerstone work on the Revolutionary/Napoleonic Army and its commanders. This is a thoroughly documented work of immense scholarship. I...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard KieckheferPreserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that...