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Vienna, 1814 : how the conquerors of Napoleon made love, war, and peace at the Congress of Vienna / David King.

King, David, 1970- (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307337160
  • ISBN: 0307337162
  • Physical Description: viii, 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Harmony Books, [2008]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-417) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Bread and circuses -- Two princes -- Illustrious strangers -- Dorothee's choice -- The big four -- Bartering destiny -- "Europe, unhappy Europe" -- Spies are everywhere! -- Dancing with the world in their hands -- The people's festival -- A lawless scramble? -- Six weeks of hell -- Robinson Crusoe -- Dinner with the tsar -- Pursuing phantoms -- The last joust -- "The glorious moment" -- The cook, the painter, the ballerina, and the diplomat -- Indiscretion -- King of the suburbs -- Requiem -- The great sleigh ride -- "Odious and criminal traffick in human flesh" -- Before the cake was cut -- Time to save the world again -- His majesty, the outlaw -- With the spring violets -- Criers of Vive le Roi! doers of nothing -- Farewells -- conquering the peace -- To conquer or die -- La belle alliance -- Shifting sand.
Subject:
Congress of Vienna (1814-1815)
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 > Treaties.
Statesmen > Europe > History > 19th century.
Europe > Politics and government > 1789-1815.
Genre:
Treaties.

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