The Birth Of The Modern: World Society 1815-1830 (Phoenix Giants S.) - Softcover

Johnson, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857993667 ISBN 13: 9781857993660

Publisher: Phoenix, 1997

Synopsis

The Birth of the Modern has established itself as a new kind of historical work - an examination of the way the matrix of the modern world was formed. Paul Johnson, one of today's most popular historians, takes fifteen critical years and subjects them to a fascinatingly detailed analysis: their geopolitics and politics, their cultural and intellectual life, their technology and science. He investigates every area of life, in every corner of the world. And he makes of this huge variety of elements a coherent narrative, told through the lives and actual words of the age's people - outstanding and ordinary - so that the reader feels he was there.

About this title

From the Publisher:

“A work of this kind stands or falls...on the richness of its material, the scope of its coverage, the intelligence of its arguments, and on all these counts this book not merely stands, but towers above any other history of the period” Sunday Telegraph

Book Description:

A classic study of fifteen crucial years in the formation of the modern world

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1857993667
• ISBN 13: 9781857993660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1120