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Vienna, 1814

  1. TitleVienna, 1814 : how the conquerors of Napoleon made love, war and peace at the Congress of Vienna / David King
    Author King, David, 1970- (Author)
    Issue1st ed.
    PublicationNew York : Harmony Books, 2008
    Scopeviii, 434 s. : il. ; 25 cm
    CountryUnited States
    LanguageEnglish
    NoteObsah: 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--Epilogue
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    Annotation"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."-- Cover
    Výrazy tezauru Evropa * zahraniční politika * mezinárodní dohoda * vrcholná schůzka * politik * Vídeňský kongres (1814-1815) * Vídeň * 1. polovina 19. století
    Klasifikační znaky0806 - Mezinárodní politika
    0816 - Mezinárodní rovnováha
    3611.2 - Historie
    ISBN978-0-307-33716-0
    Copy count1, currently available 1
    URLVienna 1814 (recenze)
    Document kindMonografie
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    F 84905EXH - externí sklad Holešovice

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