Distinguished historian Paul Johnson--author of the bestselling and critically hailed Modern Times and A History of the Jews--offers his provocative view that the so-called "Age of Reaction" was actually a period of new ideas, inventions, and great technological advances, and was, in fact, the beginning of the modern world.
Read More
Distinguished historian Paul Johnson--author of the bestselling and critically hailed Modern Times and A History of the Jews--offers his provocative view that the so-called "Age of Reaction" was actually a period of new ideas, inventions, and great technological advances, and was, in fact, the beginning of the modern world.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1300grams, ISBN: 9781857993660.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Used book in good and clean conditions. Pages and cover are intact. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Used book in good and clean conditions. Pages and cover are intact. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fair. Used book-May contain writing notes highlighting bends or folds. Text is readable book is clean and pages and cover mostly intact. May show normal wear and tear. Item may be missing CD. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.
When BIRTH OF THE MODERN, WORLD SOCIETY 1815-1830 was first published in the United States in 1991, it quickly became a national bestseller. Because as the late, great historian Eugen Weber said in his New York Times Book Review review, the book is a "tour de force."
In less than 1,100 pages, Johnson squeezes in the enormous gallery of statesmen, rogues, poets, warriors, painters, inventors, conquerers, novelists, industrialists, patriots, libertines and even early economists who began the world's rapid progress toward ever-greater prosperity, if not ever-greater peace.
As someone who's reading the thing for at least the 4th time, I can attest that it's a marvelous read.
