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Download or read book The Pursuit of Glory written by Tim Blanning and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon. Tim Blanning depicts the lives of ordinary people and the dominant personalities of the age (Louis XIV, Frederick the Great, Napoleon), and explores an era of almost unprecedented change, growth and cultural, political and technological ferment that shaped the societies and economies of entire countries.