Title: A History of Private Life IV.
Subtitle: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War
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.
Subjects: French Revolution, World War I, History
Time periods: 19th century, early 20th century