Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849

Christopher Clark

Penguin

An intellectual tour de the major essays of the esteemed author of international bestseller The SleepwalkersChristopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our a remarkable rethinking of the origins of the First World War, which has had a huge impact on how we see both the past and the present.For the many readers who found the narrative voice, craftsmanship and originality of Clark's writing so compelling, Prisoners of Time will be a book filled with surprises and enjoyment. Bringing together many of Clark's major essays, Prisoners of Time raises a host of questions about how we think about the past, and both the value and pitfalls of history as a discipline.The book includes brilliant writing on German from assessments of Kaiser Wilhelm and Bismarck to the painful story of General von Blaskowitz, a traditional Prussian military man who accommodated himself to the horrors of the Third Reich. There is a fascinating essay on attempts to convert Prussian Jews to Christianity, and insights into everything from Brexit to the significance of battles. Perhaps the most important piece in the book is 'The Dream of Nebuchadnezzar', a virtuoso meditation on the nature of political power down the ages, which will become essential reading for anyone drawn to the meaning of history.

Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans

Penguin Books, Ltd.

An intellectual tour de force: the major essays of the esteemed author of international bestseller The SleepwalkersChristopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century: a remarkable rethinking of the origins of the First World War, which has had a huge impact on how we see both the past and the present.For the many readers who found the narrative voice, craftsmanship and originality of Clark's writing so compelling, Prisoners of Time will be a book filled with surprises and enjoyment. Bringing together many of Clark's major essays, Prisoners of Time raises a host of questions about how we think about the past, and both the value and pitfalls of history as a discipline.The book includes brilliant writing on German subjects: from assessments of Kaiser Wilhelm and Bismarck to the painful story of General von Blaskowitz, a traditional Prussian military man who accommodated himself to the horrors of the Third Reich. There is a fascinating essay on attempts to convert Prussian Jews to Christianity, and insights into everything from Brexit to the significance of battles. Perhaps the most important piece in the book is 'The Dream of Nebuchadnezzar', a virtuoso meditation on the nature of political power down the ages, which will become essential reading for anyone drawn to the meaning of history.

Prisoners of Time

History

Europe

Allen Lane.

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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Military

The Complete Guide to 35mm Zoo Photography.

Hunt Publishing

Marine Algae

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing

One of The New York Times Book Review&#8217;s 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark&#8217;s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict. Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short weeks. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, Christopher Clark&#8217;s The Sleepwalkers is a dramatic and authoritative chronicle of Europe&#8217;s descent into a war that tore the world apart.

In der Geschichte Europas gibt es keinen Moment, der aufregender, aber auch keinen, der beängstigender war als der Frühling des Jahres 1848. Scheinbar aus dem Nichts versammelten sich in unzähligen Städten von Palermo bis Paris und Venedig riesige Menschenmengen, manchmal in friedlicher, oft auch in gewalttätiger Absicht. Die politische Ordnung, die seit Napoleons Niederlage alles zusammengehalten hatte, brach in sich zusammen.\nChristopher Clarks spektakuläres neues Buch erweckt mit Schwung, Esprit und neuen Erkenntnissen diese außergewöhnliche Epoche zum Leben. Überall brachen sich neue politische Ideen, Glaubenssätze und Erwartungen Bahn. Es ging um die Rolle der Frau in der Gesellschaft, das Ende der Sklaverei, das Recht auf Arbeit, nationale Unabhängigkeit und die jüdische Emanzipation. Dies waren plötzlich zentrale Lebensthemen für unendlich viele Menschen - und es wurde hart um sie gekämpft.\nDie Ideen von 1848 verbreiteten sich um die ganze Welt und veränderten die Verhältnisse zum Bessern, zuweilen aber auch zum viel Schlechteren. Und aus den Trümmern erhob sich ein neues und ganz anderes Europa.

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