- 1979 revised edition. 384 pages
- Published by The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd.
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Red Boards. Large book - approx 30 cm long x 23.5cm wide and 3cm deep.
- Good plus condition. Minor wear, fading to dust jacket especially at the spine area.
A history of civilizations from the Reformation to the Age of Revolutions. Over 500 illustrations, 80 plus in colour.
Europe in the sixteenth century was in turmoil, the Reformation clashing with the Counter-Reformation. By the end of the eigteenth, revolution had over-turned the old order. The period between these two momentous upheavals was one of exploration and discovery, when man expanded his knowledge of the world, helped by his increasing technical ability.
European influence extended both overseas and on land. America was colonized, and Peter the Great westernized Russia. Nor did nam's intellectual understanding of the world fall behind his geographical knowledge. Seventeenth-century advances in science, such as the invention of the telescope and the discovery of the solar system did not revolve around the earth, showed that religion did not necessarily hold the key to the universe.
The way was paved for the atheistic doctrines of the eighteenth-century thinkers and the work of such great philosophers as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
But it was really the American and French Revolutions that gave birth to the modern age.
All aspects of this fascinating period are examined by a group of distinguished contributors in this book.
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