Customer Review: Blanning's text on the history of modern Europe starts in the last eighteenth century, with the beginning of the French Revolution, often acknowledged by scholars today as a watershed event in the formation of modern Europe. The ramifications of this event led not only to political and military... more info
Customer Review: This book has quite a bit of information--making a very dense read. This is fine, but the authors write with several assumptions. 1. There is the assumption that everyone will know what they are referring to when discussing particular topics. As a graduate student focusing on early modern Europe, I... more info
Customer Review: Blanning drives heavy on ' The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere' from Jurgen Habermas on this one. So in order to get a better understanding, you better read Habermas first, or along with this book. They both adress the same isssue, and deal about the way the public sphere came into... more info
Customer Review: This book was poorly conceived and even more poorly written. Most of the material should have been be presented in a sociology forum, not in a history book. The book has a short, but interesting chronology, and a few interesting maps, but overall, not worth the time.
Customer Review: The wars between Revolutionary France and the other European states before the Peace of Amiens are sometimes neglected compared to the succeeding Napoleonic Wars. This book provides a good account of these wars and explains lucidly the connection between events in western and eastern Europe. The... more info
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