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Praise for Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom A masterly synthesis of [the] many disparate strands in a long and ultimately forlorn history. --Richard Overy, Daily Telegraph Clark's book is brilliantly constructed, dazzling in its scholarship, and immensely stimulating. It shows how Prussian and German rulers located their exercise of power in conceptions of their relationship to past and future, casts new light on the ways in which belief in the nature of the state developed, and describes how the destruction of faith in the state following the First World War gave rise to new and dangerous millennial ideas of the Nazis. --Ian Kershaw, author of To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 Praise for Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers One of the most impressive and stimulating studies of the period ever published. --Max Hastings, Sunday Times Easily the best book ever written on this subject. --Washington Post Superb. --Fareed Zakaria A masterpiece. --Harold Evans, New York Times Book Review Highly original and impeccably researched. Time and Power is an important contribution to the growing literature on the history of temporality. --Anson Rabinbach, coeditor of The Third Reich Sourcebook A rich and innovative contribution to temporal studies and political history. --Fran ois Hartog, author of Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time A masterpiece by one of the most renowned historians in the world. --J rgen Osterhammel, author of The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century

Praise for Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: A masterly synthesis of [the] many disparate strands in a long and ultimately forlorn history. -Richard Overy, Daily Telegraph Praise for Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers: One of the most impressive and stimulating studies of the period ever published. -Max Hastings, Sunday Times Easily the best book ever written on this subject. -Washington Post Superb. -Fareed Zakaria A masterpiece. -Harold Evans, New York Times Book Review Highly original and impeccably researched. Time and Power is an important contribution to the growing literature on the history of temporality. -Anson Rabinbach, coeditor of The Third Reich Sourcebook A rich and innovative contribution to temporal studies and political history. -Francois Hartog, author of Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time A masterpiece by one of the most renowned historians in the world. -Jurgen Osterhammel, author of The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century Clark's book is brilliantly constructed, dazzling in its scholarship, and immensely stimulating. It shows how Prussian and German rulers located their exercise of power in conceptions of their relationship to past and future, casts new light on the ways in which belief in the nature of the state developed, and describes how the destruction of faith in the state following the First World War gave rise to new and dangerous millennial ideas of the Nazis. -Ian Kershaw, author of To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949

Highly original and impeccably researched. Time and Power is an important contribution to the growing literature on the history of temporality. --Anson Rabinbach, coeditor of The Third Reich Sourcebook A rich and innovative contribution to temporal studies and political history. --Fran ois Hartog, author of Regimes of Historicity: Presentism and Experiences of Time A masterpiece by one of the most renowned historians in the world. --J rgen Osterhammel, author of The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century Clark's book is brilliantly constructed, dazzling in its scholarship, and immensely stimulating. It shows how Prussian and German rulers located their exercise of power in conceptions of their relationship to past and future, casts new light on the ways in which belief in the nature of the state developed, and describes how the destruction of faith in the state following the First World War gave rise to new and dangerous millennial ideas of the Nazis. --Ian Kershaw, author of To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 There is much to be learned from these erudite studies of 'the warping of temporality by power.' ---Daniel Johnson, Standpoint [Clark's] breadth of knowledge is impressive and his conclusions are carefully considered. ---Hester Vaizey, Times Higher Education To read this book is to be constantly stimulated to think new thoughts and to be exhilarated by the grandeur and subtlety of Clark's argument. ---Lucy Hughes-Hallett, New Statesman [A] stirring read that gathers momentum with every chapter. ---Oliver Moody, The Times A stimulating and entertaining book. ---Tim Blanning, Literary Review Clark's book, with its provocative and useful theoretical command of the concepts of time and history and its mastery of the details of German history over four centuries, is an erudite, challenging, and thought-provoking work. ---Michael Curtis, American Thinker [Time and Power] looks at history with a particular emphasis on the concept of time and should therefore offer a new and thought-provoking way to examine the past. ---Hester Vaizey, Times Higher Education One of Times Higher Education's Best Books of 2018

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Christopher Clark is the Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power, and Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 16001947. He lives in Cambridge, England.

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