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Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in Our Time

Categorie	Europa
Boeknummer	#371369-XO3
Titel	Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in Our Time
Auteur	Wasserstein, Bernard
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2007
ISBN10	0198730748
ISBN13	9780198730743
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The twentieth century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent - from rising living standards and dramatically increased life expectancy, to the virtual elimination of illiteracy, and the advance of women, ethnic minorities, and homosexuals to greater equality of respect and opportunity. It was a century of barbarism and civilization, of cruelty and tenderness, of technological achievement and environmental spoliation, of imperial expansion and withdrawal, of authoritarian repression - and of individualism resurgent. Covering everything from war and politics to social, cultural, and economic change, Barbarism and Civilization is by turns grim, humorous, s... (Lees verder)urprising, and enlightening: a window on the century we have left behind and the earliest years of its troubled successor
Pagina's	899
Conditie	Goed
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