Books by Tim Blanning and Complete Book Reviews
Tim Blanning. Random House, $35 (688p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6812-8
Blanning (The Romantic Revolution), retired professor of modern European history at Cambridge University, ambitiously explores the origins, outlook, and impact of Frederick II (1712–1786) in this wide-ranging biography. The enigmatic king was a man...
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Tim Blanning. Random/Modern Library, $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-679-64359-3
This romp through the origins and history of romanticism concentrates on its far-reaching influence in the arts. Cambridge University cultural historian Blanning (editor of The Oxford History of Europe) acknowledges the impossibility of pinpointing...
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Tim Blanning, Author, David Cannadine, Editor . Viking $35 (707p) ISBN 978-0-670-06320-8
This new volume in the Penguin History of Europe series is a wonderful achievement, particularly so considering the mammoth amount of specialist material that required synthesizing into digestible portions for general consumption. Blanning,...
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