I wish I'd been there. Book two, European history

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Author:

Hollinshead, Byron, editor.

ISBN:

9780385519083

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

xi, 318 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Contents:

At the deathbed of Alexander the Great / Josiah Ober -- Hannibal crosses the Alps / Tom Holland -- Christmas day in the year 800 / Theodore K. Rabb -- Venice, July 24, 1177 / John Julius Norwich -- Magna Carta and the King's men / Katherine Fischer Drew -- Rebel leader confronts King at Smithfield in 1381 / Barbara A. Hanawalt -- Ten thousand brutes in Renaissance Florence / Lauro Martines -- August 9, 1588 : the Spanish Armada (almost) surrenders / Geoffrey Parker -- The Globe Theatre, February 7, 1601 / Katherine Duncan-Jones -- With the Prince of Wales in Madrid, 1623 / John H. Elliott -- By fits and starts : the making of Isaac Newton's Principia / Mordechai Feingold -- Handel is fired / Ellen T. Harris -- Frederick the Great and the propagation of potatoes / William H. McNeill -- The Battle of the Nile / Paul Kennedy -- The "uncouth riddle" of Edouard Manet : Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe at the 1863 Salon des Réfuses / Ross King -- Nicholas 2 signs the October Manifesto / Richard Pipes -- Tunnels, territory, and broken promises : France betrayed by the Anglo-Saxons? / Margaret MacMillan -- Backstage at the Ballets Russes with Picasso / Charles A. Riley II -- Exorcising Aristotle's ghost / Freeman Dyson -- The German surrender to Montgomery at Lüneburg Heath, May 1945 / John Keegan.

Abstract:

What is the scene or incident in European history that you would like to have witnessed--and why? This is the question that the editors posed to twenty superb historians, who each wrote a personal essay in response. The result is this engrossing book, a worthy sequel to the acclaimed volume on American history, I Wish I'd Been There. From the death of Alexander the Great to the German surrender ending World War II, these essays move across a wide geography for over two millennia and deal with politics, law, religion, peace and war, science and the arts, rebellion, and social change. In addition to adding immediacy, color, and vibrancy to well-known events, they also provide fresh illuminations and interpretations of vital moments in the history of Europe.--From publisher description.

Subject Term:

World history.

Added Author:

Hollinshead, Byron,

Rabb, Theodore K.,

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007006451.html

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What is the scene or incident in European history that you would like to have witnessed--and why?This is the question that the editors posed to twenty superb historians who wrote a personal essay in response. The result is this engrossing book, a worthy sequel to the acclaimed volume on American history, I Wish I'd Been There, The death of Alexander the Great and the German surrender ending WWII are among the key events that are re-created and illuminated by such scholars as Tom Holland, William McNeill, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Richard Pipes, Freeman Dyson, and Margaret MacMillan. WITH ALEXANDER, NAPOLEON, AND PICASSO is a marvelous idea, wonderfully and imaginatively executed. The result is an historical pageant of characters and events that will delight all readers of history.