From dawn to decadence 500 years of western culture life : 1500 to the present
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 what Weste...
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New York, NY
Perennial
2001
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. From Luther's Ninety-five Theses to Boyle's "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"