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Details the 1814 Congress of Vienna, offering portraits of the participants and discussing the political intrigues, illicit affairs, tangled alliances, and bitter rivalries that marked the occasion that transformed the face of nineteenth-century Europe.
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King reveals his talent for narrative flow and portraiture in a biography that will thoroughly inveigle history readers.
Booklist
A teeming personality-rich panorama of the first truly international peace conference.
Kirkus Reviews
A fascinating tale that shines light on a unique aspect of the relationship between scholarship and nationalism.
Choice
"It would have been more fun to attend the Congress of Vienna than any other political assembly in history. Next best is to immerse yourself in David King's Vienna 1814, which reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively-researched and important story that it tells. There was much frivolousness in the Vienna congress, but it did bring peace to Europe and shape the 19th century; and while the deliberations of the Vienna statesmen took place, the fate of the world hung in the balance."
David Fromkin, author of Europe s Last Summer
Deftly paced and engagingly written.
Publishers Weekly
King does a superb job of evoking the bedazzling social scene that served as the backdrop to the Congress of Vienna. This is a worthy contribution to the study of a critical historical event long neglected by historians. It should be in every European history collection.
Library Journal, starred review
--Kirkus Reviews "A fascinating tale that shines light on a unique aspect of the relationship between scholarship and nationalism."
--Choice "It would have been more fun to attend the Congress of Vienna than any other political assembly in history. Next best is to immerse yourself in David King's Vienna 1814, which reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively-researched and important story that it tells. There was much frivolousness in the Vienna congress, but it did bring peace to Europe and shape the 19th century; and while the deliberations of the Vienna statesmen took place, the fate of the world hung in the balance."
--David Fromkin, author of Europe's Last Summer "Deftly paced and engagingly written."
--Publishers Weekly "King does a superb job of evoking the bedazzling social scene that served as the backdrop to the Congress of Vienna. This is a worthy contribution to the study of a critical historical event long neglected by historians. It should be in every European history collection."
--Library Journal, starred review From the Hardcover edition.
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Booklist
A teeming personality-rich panorama of the first truly international peace conference.
Kirkus Reviews
A fascinating tale that shines light on a unique aspect of the relationship between scholarship and nationalism.
Choice
"It would have been more fun to attend the Congress of Vienna than any other political assembly in history. Next best is to immerse yourself in David King's Vienna 1814, which reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively-researched and important story that it tells. There was much frivolousness in the Vienna congress, but it did bring peace to Europe and shape the 19th century; and while the deliberations of the Vienna statesmen took place, the fate of the world hung in the balance."
David Fromkin, author of Europe s Last Summer
Deftly paced and engagingly written.
Publishers Weekly
King does a superb job of evoking the bedazzling social scene that served as the backdrop to the Congress of Vienna. This is a worthy contribution to the study of a critical historical event long neglected by historians. It should be in every European history collection.
Library Journal, starred review
From the Hardcover edition."
"King reveals his talent for narrative flow and portraiture in a biography that will thoroughly inveigle history readers."
--Booklist
--Kirkus Reviews "A fascinating tale that shines light on a unique aspect of the relationship between scholarship and nationalism."
--Choice "It would have been more fun to attend the Congress of Vienna than any other political assembly in history. Next best is to immerse yourself in David King's Vienna 1814, which reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively-researched and important story that it tells. There was much frivolousness in the Vienna congress, but it did bring peace to Europe and shape the 19th century; and while the deliberations of the Vienna statesmen took place, the fate of the world hung in the balance."
--David Fromkin, author of Europe's Last Summer "Deftly paced and engagingly written."
--Publishers Weekly "King does a superb job of evoking the bedazzling social scene that served as the backdrop to the Congress of Vienna. This is a worthy contribution to the study of a critical historical event long neglected by historians. It should be in every European history collection."
--Library Journal, starred review From the Hardcover edition.
A Fulbright scholar with a master's degree from Cambridge University, David King is the author of Finding Atlantis.
Mel Foster has narrated over 150 audiobooks and has won several awards. Twice an Audie finalist for 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History by Charles Bracelen Flood and Finding God in Unexpected Places by Philip Yancey, he won for the latter title.
Mel Foster has narrated over 150 audiobooks and has won several awards. Twice an Audie finalist for 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History by Charles Bracelen Flood and Finding God in Unexpected Places by Philip Yancey, he won for the latter title.
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- PublisherTantor Media Inc
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1400106265
- ISBN 13 9781400106264
- BindingAudio CD
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