JOHNSON, Paul.
The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830.
New York: Harper Collins , 1991.
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First Edition of Paul Johnson's The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830
First edition of the historian's classic work. Thick octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Suzanne Noli.
This extraordinary chronicle of fifteen years that laid the foundations of the modern world is the history of people, ideas, politics, manners and morals, economics, art, science and technology, diplomacy, business and commerce, literature and revolution. From Wellington at Waterloo and Jackson at New Orleans to the surge of democratic power and the new forces of reform that emerged by 1830, this is a portrait of a period of great and rapid changes that saw the United States transform itself from an ex—colony into a formidable nation; Britain become the first industrial world power; Russia develop the fatal flaws that would engulf her in the 20th century and China and Japan set the stage for future development and catastrophe. Latin America became independent, and the dawn of modernity appeared in Turkey and Egypt, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the Balkans.
The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830.
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