Forge of empires, 1861-1871 : three revolutionary statesmen and the world they made / Michael Knox Beran
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- 4232581
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- Beran, Michael Knox
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- New York : Free Press, 2007
- xiv, 477 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
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- 9780743270694
- 074327069X
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"Abraham Lincoln freed a subjugated race and transformed the American Republic." "Tsar Alexander II broke the chains of the serfs and brought the rule of law to Russia." "Otto von Bismark threw over the petty Teutonic princes, defeated the House of Austria and the last of the imperial Napoleons, and united the German nation." "The three statesmen forged the empires that would dominate the twentieth century through two world wars, the Cold War, and beyond. Each of the three was a revolutionary, yet each consolidated a nation that differed profoundly from the others in its conceptions of liberty, power, and human destiny. Michael Knox Beran's Forge of Empires entwines the stories of the three epochal transformations and their fateful legacies."
"Telling these stories from the point of view of those who participating in the momentous events - among them Walt Whitman and Friedrich Nietzsche, Mary Chesnut and Leo Tolstoy, Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie - Beran weaves a tapestry of drama and human pathos. Great events often turned on the decisions of a few lone souls, and each of the three statesmen faced moments of painful doubt or denial as well as significant decisions that would redefine their nations."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Prologue: Three deaths
- Pt. 1. Into the Pit
- Pt. 2. The Revolutions at Their Height
- Pt. 3. Freedom and Terror
- Epilogue: THe ordeal of liberty.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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