The nation which has unmistakably assumed the leading role in European affairs during the past two hundred years is France. At the opening of the eighteenth century she already enjoyed a commanding position. In the wars to which the ambition of her king, Louis XIV, gave rise, almost all the countries of western Europe took part; even their colonies in distant regions were involved, and the map of the world was fundamentally altered. A generation after Louis XIV's death France began to be recognized as the great teacher of Europe; her philosophers and economists denounced the abuses which existed everywhere and urged the reform of ancient, outworn institutions. When, in due time, France wrought a revolution in her own government, she speedily forced other nations to follow her example. Indeed, carried away by the genius of her general, Napoleon Bonaparte, she seemed at one time about to bring all Europe under her sway...
The Development of Modern Europe Volume I
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Taal:
Engels
Formaat:
500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 19th Century
In Europa : reizen door de Twintigste Eeuw
De eeuw van mijn vader
Nexus : Van het stenen tijdperk tot AI: een beknopte geschiedenis van informatienetwerken
Moderne profeten: herders voor nu
In Europa - Reizen door de twintigste eeuw - I
Evolutie van het brein : Een hoorcollege over de evolutie en werking van de hersenen bij mens en dier
Moderne profeten: ware woorden
Letters From Everest : Unpublished Letters from Mallory’s Life and Death in the Mountains
De Pop van Elisabeth Gehrke : Verrijkte editie.
This Country : My Life in Politics and History
De wetten van de melancholie
