The Birth of the Modern
by Johnson, Paul
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- Book VG: age wear/soil to wraps, slight bow to spine, text clean, binding tight.
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About This Item
New York: Harper Collins, 1991. softcover. Book VG: age wear/soil to wraps, slight bow to spine, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 1095pp. from Preface: "The title of this book requires some explanations. I present the fifteen years 1815-1830 as those during which the matrix of the modern world was largely formed. Some may find this choice surprising. They might point instead to the decade of the 1780s as decisive, when the British economy was the first to achieve self-sustaining industrial growth, and the French Revolution began the process of sweeping away the ancien regime. It is true that modernity was conceived in the 1780s. But the actual birth, delayed by the long, destructive gestation period formed by the Napoleonic Wars, could begin in full measure only when peace came and the immense new resources in finance, management, science and technology which were now available could be put to constructive purposes. That is what I describe in my book." #02026 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1964
- Title
- The Birth of the Modern
- Author
- Johnson, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG: age wear/soil to wraps, slight bow to spine, text clean, binding tight.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- history, modernism, nineteenth century, nonfiction
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