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Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500. In this account, Barzun describes... read more
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Setting & Locations edit
- New England
- France
- Central Europe
- Paris
- Germany
- Italy
- United States
- Rome
- Spain
- America
- London
- Rabelais
- Venice
- Beaumarchais
- Goethe
- Berlioz
- Russia
- Balzac
- Austria
- Versailles
- New York
- Stendhal
- Petrarch
- Egypt
- Greece
- Madrid
- Chicago
- Sweden
- Netherlands
- Montesquieu
- Florence
- Saint-simon
- Poland
- Geneva
- Switzerland
- Africa
- Racine
- Providence
- Portugal
- Scotland
- India
- Naples
- Columbus
- Vienna
- Far East
- Japan
- Ireland
- Middle Ages
First Sentence edit
THE MODERN ERA BEGINS, characteristically, with a revolution.
Table of Contents edit
Author's Note
Prologue:
From Current Concerns to the Subject of this book
Part I:
From Luther's Ninety-five These to Boy'es "Invisible College"
Part II:
From the Bog and Sand of Versailles to the Tennis Court
Part III:
From Faust, Part I, to the "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2:
Part IV:
From "The Great Illusion" to "Western Civ has Got to Go"
Reference Notes
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jacques Barzun (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0060175869
Page Count: 877
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0060175869
Page Count: 877
Awards edit
- National Book Award (Finalist, 2000)
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 2000: Criticism)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: CB245 .B365 2000
- Dewey: 940.2
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