This is a thorough, engaging and informative history: it takes on a lot (more than 150 years of history in a whole slew of countries, in 677 pages), and does an excellent job with it, offering interesting detail, analysis and quotations by contemporary observers.Interestingly, the book is organized ...
Tim Blanning's book is a marvel -- within a little more than 200 pages he provides a sophisticated analysis of the Romantic movement in all its diversity. Starting with its origins as a reaction to the 18th century Enlightenment, he describes the main themes of Romanticism, including its celebration...
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