The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830From the bestselling author of Modern Times, A History of the Jews, and Intellectuals, a provocative, challenging, and readable history of 15 years that laid the foundations of the modern world. The period after Waterloo (1815-1830), traditionally viewed as an Age of Reaction, was astonishly fertile in new ideas and, Johnson maintains, the modern world. 16 pages of halftones. |
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Gebruikersrecensie - LisaMaria_C - LibraryThingPaul Johnson is a British journalist, a believing Catholic--and a conservative. That will put some people off--although it's notable I saw more than one review from readers who said in spite of that ... Volledige review lezen
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Gebruikersrecensie - the.ken.petersen - LibraryThingThis is a very dry, "clever" book which, in my humble opinion, does not carry its argument: namely, that the 15 years from 1815 to 1830 were the period in which "life as we know it" was created. I ... Volledige review lezen
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character of General Jackson | 4 |
of American English | 56 |
Waterloo 79 | 114 |
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830 |
| Auteur | Paul Johnson |
| Uitgever | HarperCollins Publishers, 1991 |
| ISBN | 006016574X, 9780060165741 |
| Lengte | 1095 pagina's |
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