Success Is Never Final - Couverture rigide

Parker, Geoffrey

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0465054773 ISBN 13 : 9780465054770

Editeur : Basic Books, 2002

Synopsis

Failure fascinates historians, especially when it follows fast on the heels of victory. In ten provocative essays, Geoffrey Parker chronicles notable moments in fifteenth-, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe when defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory. He paints a broad picture of empire, war, and religion in the early modern world.Parker groups his material into three sections. In the first, he examines the rise and fall of the first global empire, the Spanish Empire. In the second, he shows how the spread of the Western military innovation triggered resistance stronger than it could overcome. Finally, he tells of the failure of the Reformation to grow beyond its original, urban milieu.Success Is Never Final offers a rich and original view of the fluctuations of power in early modern Europe, and bold new thinking from one of our master historians.

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À propos de l'auteur

Geoffrey Parker is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at Ohio State University, and previously held chairs at Yale University, the University of Illinois, the University of British Columbia, and at St. Andrews in Great Britain. The author or editor of thirty books, including The Military Revolution, The Dutch Revolt, and The Grand Strategy of Philip II, he is also a Fellow of the British Academy, a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabel the Catholic, and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso the Wise. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0465054773
• ISBN 13: 9780465054770
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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