A History of Private Life - IV from the Fires of Revolution to the Great War by Perrott, Michelle; Arier, Philippe & Duby, Georges [eds] - 1990

Cambridge MA: Belknap Press/Harvard U.P., 1990 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 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.. 1st.US Edition.. Hard Cover. New/New. Illus. by Translator - Arthur Goldhammer.