"Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Weidenfeld & Nicolson ... in 2010"--T.p. verso.

Tim Blanning is an award-winning editor and the author of The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture, which won a prestigious German prize and was short-listed for the British Academy Book Prize, The Pursuit of Glory, and The Triumph of Music. In 2000 he was awarded a Pilkington Prize for teaching by the University of Cambridge.