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From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War (History of Private Life, Vol. IV)
From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War - History of Private Life, Vol. IV Author:Michelle Perrot (Editor), Arthur Goldhammer (Translator) The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value, emerged. Volume IV of this award-winning series chronicles this development from the tumult ... more »of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I--a century and a quarter of rapid, ungovernable change culminating in a conflict that, at a stroke, altered life in the Western world.« less