A History of Power in Europe - Couverture rigide

Blockmans, Wim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0810963477 ISBN 13 : 9780810963474

Editeur : Harry N. Abrams, 1997

Synopsis

As we stand on the brink of a new millennium, A History of Power in Europe offers a masterful and original analysis of the various configurations of power and their significance in European history over the last 1,000 years, and in so doing provides a brilliant account of Western thought and politics.Beginning with the time when nation-states first appeared in Europe, around A.D. 1000, through the continent's many battles, wars, annexations, and revolutions, to the large-scale upheavals of our century, this broad, ambitious, and erudite study offers a radical new perspective on the exercise of power.Wim Blockmans examines the use of power in European society through analysis of three main areas: politics, economics, and culture. Europe's independent and mutually competitive states were a hothouse of new ideas, in which a uniquely energetic society developed.More than 350 illustrations -- paintings, engravings, tapestries, illuminated manuscripts, maps, coins, posters, even chess pieces -- by artists as diverse as Giorgio Vasari, Rembrandt, El Greco, and Paul Gauguin brilliantly illuminate the author's arguments.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harry N. Abrams
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810963477
• ISBN 13: 9780810963474
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 402
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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