Auteur: Tim Blanning

Mit Band XV präsentieren sich die Göttinger Händel-Beiträge (GHB) in einem neuen Erscheinungsbild und mit neuer inhaltlicher Konzeption. Der Band dokumentiert das Symposium  »The Power of Musick’ – M …

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A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two – …

The Pursuit of Glory brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the …

Once musicians such as Mozart were little more than court servants; now they are multimillionaire superstars wielding more power than politicians. How did this extraordinary change come about? Tim Bl …

George I was not the most charismatic of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in England but he was probably the most important. He was certainly the luckiest.Born the youngest son of a landless G …

SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th century in the same way that Napoleon dominated th …

Three decades ago, Francois Furet famously announced that the French Revolution was over. Napoleon’s armies ceased to march around Europe long ago, and Louis XVIII even returned to occupy the throne …

Mit feiner britischer Ironie fängt Tim Blanning das Genie des berühmtesten preußischen Königs, seine Vitalität und komplexe Persönlichkeit ebenso ein wie das Ungeheuer Friedrich mit seinen fatalen En …

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Die Geburt des modernen Europas: ein Epochengemälde als »Sternstunde der Geschichtsschreibung« (Literary Review) Tim Blannings Geschichte Europas erstreckt sich vom Ende des Dreißigjährigen Kriegs bi …

‘Tim Blanning s riotous biography… is impossible to read without thinking of picaresque characters such as Fielding s Tom Jones and Thackeray s Barry Lyndon… [an] irresistible feast of a biograph …

A distinguished historian chronicles the rise of music and musicians in the West from lowly balladeers to masters employed by fickle patrons, to the great composers of genius, to today’s rock stars. …