Search Results: Western Civilization from The Reading Well Bookstore

Free Pr. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1966. 3rd Printing. Paperback. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 263 pages; Illustrated paper covers. There is an old pricing sticker on front cover. Light rubbing of the covers. Light bumping of the upper front spine area. Appears to free of marks inside. Pages are fully intact and clean with very light aging. Substantial selections from such writers as Marx and Engles, Tockqueville, Flaubert, Burckhardt, and Zola offer evidence of the richness and variety of the prior from the end of the Neopoleonic Wars (1815) to the outbreak of World War I (1914). Topics represented in this collection include: Meteternich's plans for a tranquil Europe, Lord Ashley's indictment of industrial society, the storm over "Darwinism," Civil War in the United States, and the problem of the proper constitutional position of the British House of Lords. .