THE PURSUIT OF GLORY - EUROPE 1648-1815
Tim Blanning Viking US$39.95
A review of this 708 page history, described as a page-turner, appeared in the New York Times today under the following rather appealing headline -
Europe's Rise to Power? Thank better roads, revolutions of all sorts, and turnips.
Illustration from the book.
The NYT review states that there has not been a religious war in Europe since 1648?!!!
ReplyDeleteI guess that Tim Blanning never heard of WW2 and such things as the Holocaust of the Jewish peoples and of the Serbian peoples?
Or that he never heard of Jesuit "Father" Wlodimir Ledochowski?
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