The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830From the bestselling author of Modern Times, A History of the Jews, and Intellectuals, a provocative, challenging, and readable history of 15 years that laid the foundations of the modern world. The period after Waterloo (1815-1830), traditionally viewed as an Age of Reaction, was astonishly fertile in new ideas and, Johnson maintains, the modern world. 16 pages of halftones. |
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TWO The Congress Dances | 63 |
and return 75 Before during and after the Battle | 101 |
THREE The End of the Wilderness | 165 |
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