Rousseau and Revolution
Subtitle: A History of Civilization in France, England, and German from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789
Series: The Story of Civilization, Part X
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardover
Number of pages: 1091
Copyright date: 1967
First sentence: This is the concluding volume of that Story of Civilization to which we devoted ourselves in 1929, and which has been the daily chore and solace of our lives ever since.
Notes: <a href="https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/will-and-ariel-durant">Winner</a> of the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Table of contents: title: Book I: Prelude; title: Chapter I. Rousseau Wanderer: 1712-56; title: Chapter II. The Seven Years' War: 1756-63; title: Book II: France Before the Deluge (1757-74); title: Chapter III. The Life of the State; title: Chapter IV. The Art of Life; title: Chapter V. Voltaire Patriarch: 1758-78; title: Chapter VI. Rousseau Romantic: 1756-62; title: Chapter VII. Rousseau Philosopher; title: Chapter VIII. Rousseau Outcast: 1762-67; title: Book III: The Catholic South: 1715-89; title: Chapter IX. Italia Felix: 1715-59; title: Chapter X. Portugal and Pombal: 1706-82; title: Chapter XI. Spain and the Enlightenment: 1700-88; title: Chapter XII. Vale, Italia: 1760-89; title: Chapter XIII. The Enlightenment in Austria: 1756-90; title: Chapter XIV. Music Reformed; title: Chapter XV. Mozart; title: Book IV: Islam and the Slavic East: 1715-96; title: Chapter XVI. Islam: 1715-96; title: Chapter XVII. Russian Interlude: 1725-62; title: Chapter XVIII. Catherine the Great: 1762-96; title: Chapter XIX. The Rape of Poland: 1715-95; title: Book V: The Protestant North: 1756-89; title: Chapter XX. Frederick's Germany: 1756-86; title: Chapter XXI. Kant: 1724-1804; title: Chapter XXII. Roads to Weimar: 1733-87; title: Chapter XXIII. Weimar in Flower: 1775-1805; title: Chapter XXIV. Goethe Nestor: 1805-32; title: Chapter XXV. The Jews: 1715-89; title: Chapter XXVI. From Geneva to Stockholm; title: Book VI: Johnson's England: 1756-89; title: Chapter XXVII. The Industrial Revolution; title: Chapter XXVIII. The Political Drama: 1756-92; title: Chapter XXIX. The English People: 1756-89; title: Chapter XXX: The Age of Reynolds: 1756-90; title: Chapter XXXI: England's Neighbors: 1756-89; title: Chapter XXXII: The Literary Scene: 1756-89; title: Chapter XXXIII. Samuel Johnson: 1709-84; title: Book VII: The Collapse of Feudal France: 1774-89; title: Chapter XXXIV. The Final Glory: 1774-83; title: Chapter XXXV. Death and the Philosophers: 1774-1807; title: Chapter XXXVI. On the Eve: 1774-89; title: Chapter XXXVII. The Anatomy of a Revolution: 1774-89; title: Chapter XXXVIII. The Political Debacle: 1783-89