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Europe: 1815-1914

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The Pursuit of Power

De: Richard J. Evans
Narrado por: Napoleon Ryan
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Richard J. Evans's gripping narrative ranges across a century of social and national conflicts, from the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 to the unification of both Germany and Italy, from the Russo-Turkish wars to the Balkan upheavals that brought this era of relative peace and growing prosperity to an end. Among the great themes it discusses are the decline of religious belief and the rise of secular science and medicine, the journey of art, music, and literature from Romanticism to Modernism, the replacement of old-regime punishments by the modern prison, and the dramatic struggle of feminists for women's equality and emancipation. Uniting the era's broad-ranging transformations was the pursuit of power in all segments of life, from the banker striving for economic power to the serf seeking to escape the power of his landlord, from the engineer asserting society's power over the environment to the psychiatrist attempting to exert science's power over human nature itself.

The first single-volume history of the century, this comprehensive and sweeping account gives the listener a magnificently human picture of Europe in the age when it dominated the rest of the globe.

©2016 Richard J. Evans (P)2016 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Europa Moderna Mundial Política y Gobierno Siglo XIX Guerra Socialismo Imperialismo Edad media Autodeterminación Capitalismo América Latina Unión Soviética Renacimiento Reino Unido Rusia Winston Churchill Italia Justicia social Periodo de entreguerras
Comprehensive History • Insightful Analysis • Dulcet Tones • Detailed Research • Educational Content • Fantastic Voice
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Evans's history of 19th century Europe should be required reading for anyone interested in how we came to the situation facing us in the 21st. The beginning of the book,with its focus on geopolitics, is slow going but worth the effort. Evans seems to cover everything: A rich social history that spans the continent from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the onset of WW1. Highly recommended.

Terrific comprehensive history

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This is a very good and comprehensive history of the 19th century. It is very well written and also very well performed; I do Recommend it highly.

A great book

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Delivered by the steady dulcet tones of Napoleon Ryan, The Pusuit of Power goes in depth with the history of 19th Century Europe and it's inevitable march to WWI.

An Excellent History of Pre Great War Europe

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A well organized and thoughtful overview. It gave me great insight into this period. I did not realize how ignorant I was about this time with violence and hardship beyond scale we can comprehend.
Great reader. His use of voices for historical characters brought life to the reading. The 45 hours went surprisingly fast.
I would strongly recommend for any history student and any American who wants to better understand where as well as why our ancestors left

Thoroughly engaging

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I bought this work in order to more fully understand the currents that brought Europe to war in 1914 and the NSADP to power in 1933. Evans does a fine job of giving me that background in the military, political, and intellectual realms but is lacking in the social dimension. A few of my complaints follow.

We get the stories of a few exceptional women who wrote novels, or led protests, or became the first M.Ds or PhDs, but one leaves this book thinking the other 99.9999% of women did nothing to shape that world.

There is virtually nothing on child rearing. Such questions as what was the amount and frequency of child abuse, neglect, and malnutrition (outside of times of famine); what systems of child care were practised; and what general attitudes with regard to the value of children beyond them being future fodder for war and national glory are missing or only touched upon with a single sentence. Like non-exceptinonal women, regular families don't matter in Evans' Europe.

Nor is there any discussion of why things like slavery and racial extermination were fought against by the Britian but not, for example, Germany. I want to know why the Brits were a more empathetic nation and that answer is not in this book.

Social/Military/Political Fine; Social is Lacking

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This is a superb investigation of an extraordinarily complex century. The narration is especially brilliant, with perfect pronunciation of a host of foreign names, and clear and articulate presentation of the text.

Superb Investigation

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A looong study. very thorough we need
this understanding internlised in American
conscience today.

History...learn or suffer again!

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I never thought a narrator would bother me, but this one did. The book itself is good though.

Narrator tried too hard

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Brings character and sensitivity to the stories of Europeans during a vital century, tying together separate narratives to help you understand that time in the Continent. The narrator's voice acting is on point, too.

Detailed and entertaining

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The author takes an insightful chunk of human history - not one frequently called an "Era" - and tells the story of the formation modern politics, culture, warfare and the emergence of individualism. It had not occurred to me that this hundred year swath represents such immense paradigm shifts, technical and civil progress. This book stood out because it knit together and helped me make linear sense of the dozens of history books I've read over the years.

A Unique Perspective

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