The World in 1800 - Brossura

Bernier, Olivier

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0471395218 ISBN 13: 9780471395218

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001

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PRAISE FOR The World in 180

"Olivier Bernier?s richly detailed, engaging, and elegant book offers a splendid refresher course on a pivotal moment in world history?the dawn of the modern era."?Francine du Plessix Gra

"Elegantly written." ?The New York Times Book Revie

"Bernier?s style is easeful and informed: he has an acute eye for a colourful, clever, and iconic image."?The Times (London

"Sweeping, impressively argued. . . . A distinguished work of popular history."?Kirkus Review

"Bernier is less interested in historical debates than in telling a good story."?San Francisco Chronicl

"When the art historian in Bernier gains ascendancy, the result is wonderful."?The Australian Financial Revie

". . . for the first time ever, the world was one, united by war and by the survival of that most ancient of evils, slavery. Already during the Seven Years? War, from 1756 to 1763, fighting had ranged across the continents and across the oceans; but it had been disorganized and relatively brief, a series of spasms rather than a new way of being. The wars of the French Revolution, from 1792 to 1815, changed all that. Now the leading nations?France and Great Britain particularly?had worldwide strategies. What happened in Rio, Cairo, Calcutta, or Cape Town mattered to the governments in Paris and London; and each movement of the adversaries caused consequences thousands of miles away."?From the Introductio

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L'autore:

OLIVIER BERNIER was born in the United States of French parents and was educated in Paris, at Harvard, and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. He is the author of several critically acclaimed histories, including Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties; Words of Fire, Deeds of Blood: The Mob, the Monarchy, and the French Revolution; and Louis XIV: A Royal Life. He has also taught art history and is widely acclaimed for his lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0471395218
• ISBN 13: 9780471395218
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464