num_pages: 713
description: The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value, emerged. Volume IV of this award-winning series chronicles this development from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I--a century and a quarter of rapid, ungovernable change culminating in a conflict that, at a stroke, altered life in the Western world.
language: English
title: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War
titlecomplete: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War
genres: 20th Century, Sociology, History, Anthropology, Reference, France, European History, Social Science, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 208
series: A History of Private Life
publisher: Belknap Press