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Eager to negotiate a workable and lasting peace, the major powers—Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia—along with a host of lesser nations, began a series of committee sessions in Vienna: an eight-month-long carnival that combined political negotiations with balls, dinners, artistic performances, hunts, tournaments, picnics, and other sundry forms of entertainment for the thousands of aristocrats who had gathered in the Austrian capital. Although the Congress of Vienna resulted in an unprecedented level of stability in Europe, the price of peace would be high. Many of the crucial questions were decided on the battlefield or in squalid roadside cottages amid the vagaries of war. And the proceedings in Vienna itself were not as decorous as is usually represented.
Internationally bestselling author Adam Zamoyski draws on a wide range of original sources, which include not only official documents, private letters, diaries, and firsthand accounts, but also the reports of police spies and informers, to reveal the steamy atmosphere of greed and lust in which the new Europe was forged. Meticulously researched, masterfully told, and featuring a cast of some of the most influential and powerful figures in history, including Tsar Alexander, Metternich, Talleyrand, and the Duke of Wellington, Rites of Peace tells the story of these extraordinary events and their profound historical consequences.
Following Napoleon's defeat and exile in 1814, the future of the European continent hung in the balance. Eager to negotiate a lasting, workable peace, representatives of Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia—along with a host of lesser nations—gathered in Vienna for an eight-month-long political carnival, combining negotiations with balls, tournaments, picnics, artistic performances, and other sundry forms of entertainment for the thousands of assembled aristocrats. While the Congress of Vienna resulted in an unprecedented level of European stability, the price of peace would be shockingly high, with many crucial questions ultimately decided on the battlefield or in squalid roadside cottages amid the vagaries of war.
Internationally bestselling author Adam Zamoyski's Rites of Peace is a meticulously researched, masterfully told account of these extraordinary events and their profound historical consequences, featuring a cast of some of the most influential and powerful figures in history.
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Illustrated (illustrateur). First Edition. List of illustrations, list of maps, introduction by author, notes, bibliography and index stop illustrated end pages, showing the signatories of Congress of Vienna. The text is illustrated with two, of eight pages each, black-and-white and colour reproductions of contemporary artwork. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with gilt and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. After the disastrous showing in Russia, Napoleon's grip on Europe started to fail. There then became a scramble by the most powerful states to acquire territory, and, quoting the front fold over panel blurb " . in which countries were traded as if they had been private estates and their inhabitants counted like cattle. The result, fixed at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, not only laid the foundations of the European world as we know it; it put in place a social order and the security system that lie at the root of many of the problems which dog the world today." Minor rubbing of the book corners and there is a bump to the lower left hand corner of the front panel. A little ruffling of the top dustwrapper edge and rubbing of the panels. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [4] V - XVIII, 634, [4] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; 19th century; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0007197578. ISBN/EAN: 9780007197576. Inventory No: 0290056. N° de réf. du vendeur 0290056
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