Rites of Peace The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna

Name: Rites of Peace The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
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ISBN: 9780060775193

ISBN-10: 006077519X

ISBN-13: 9780060775193

Edition: 2008

Authors: Adam Zamoyski

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Following Napoleon's defeat and exile in 1814, the future of the European continent hung in the balance. Eager to negotiate a lasting, workable peace, representatives of Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia-along with a host of lesser nations-gathered in Vienna for an eight-month-long political carnival, combining negotiations with balls, tournaments, picnics, artistic performances, and other sundry forms of entertainment for the thousands of assembled aristocrats. While the Congress of Vienna resulted in an unprecedented level of European stability, the price of peace would be shockingly high, with many crucial questions ultimately decided on the battlefield or in squalid roadside…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Adam Zamoyski was born in New York, was educated at Oxford, & lives in London. His other books include biographies of Chopin & Paderewski & a history of Poland.



List of Illustrations


List of Maps


Introduction



The Lion at Bay



The Saviour of Europe



The Peacemakers



A War for Peace



Intimate Congress



Farce in Prague



The Play for Germany



The First Waltzes



A Finger in the Pie



Battlefield Diplomacy



Paris Triumph



Peace



The London Round



Just Settlements



Setting the Stage



Points of Order



Notes and Balls



Kings' Holiday



A Festival of Peace



Guerre de Plume



Political Carrousel



Explosive Diplomacy



Dance of War



War and Peace



The Saxon Deal



Unfinished Business



The Flight of the Eagle



The Hundred Days



The Road to Waterloo



Wellington's Victory



The Punishment of France



Last Rites



Discordant Concert



The Arrest of Europe


Notes


Bibliography


Index