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New York: Harper Torchbooks - Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1964. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Covers, Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: TB 1121. ALSO KNOWN AS: This book was translated from the French by Francis H. Herrick and originally published in 1947 by The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, California. REVIEWS: " . . . a masterpiece of the first importance." - Crane Brinton. "Probably no single passage in historical literature, if understood without cynicism, would contribute more to the sophistication of the American citizen with respect to the everlasting maneuvers of the diplomatic game than Sorel's first chapter of L'Europe et la Revolution francaise, his famous description of the European state system in the eighteenth century. Professor Herrick has thought to translate and publish that passage, with a few slight, unobtrusive interpolations to clarify its factual… Read More