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1848: Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport
Category: History
In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815, but which in many countries had also suppressed dreams of national freedom and parliamentary government. ...Show more
1848: Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport
Category: Australian History
* A brilliant, colourful narrative history of a pivotal year in European history
City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Epoque by Mike Rapport
Category: History
Paris in the Belle Epoque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between the revolutionary 1870s and the outbreak of war in 1914 saw the modern French capital take shape: by day Parisians could admire the rising Eiffel Tower and Sacre-Coeur Basilica, whi ...Show more
Rebel Cities Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution by Mike Rapport
Category: History
London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual life intersected. They straddled an Atlantic world where ships powered by nothing more than wind, currents and human muscle criss-crossed the sea, carrying with ...Show more
The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction by Mike Rapport
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries they provided the stimulus for radical social and political change - particularly in Spain, Germany, and Italy - and are frequently v ...Show more
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