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Rousseau and revolution : a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789 / by Will and Ariel Durant.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Durant, Will ; 10.Description: xx, 1091 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps (on lining papers) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780671630584
Other title:
  • History of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Rousseau and Revolution.LOC classification:
  • CB411.D951.R687 1967
Contents:
Prelude -- Rousseau wanderer : 1712-56 -- The Seven Years' War : 1756-63 France before the deluge : 1757-74 -- The life of the state -- The art of life -- Voltaire patriarch : 1758-78 -- Rousseau romantic : 1756-62 -- Rousseau philosopher -- Rousseau outcast : 1762-67 The Catholic South : 1715-89 -- Italia felix : 1715-59 -- Portugal and Pombal : 1706-82 -- Spain and the Enlightenment : 1700-88 -- Vale, Italia : 1760-89 -- The Enlightenment in Austria : 1756-90 -- Music reformed -- Mozart Islam and the Slavic East : 1715-96 -- Islam : 1715-96 -- Russian interlude : 1725-62 -- Catherine the Great : 1762-96 -- The rape of Poland : 1715-95 The Protestant North : 1756-89 -- Frederick's Germany : 1756-86 -- Kant : 1724-1804 -- Roads to Weimar : 1733-87 -- Weimar in flower : 17775-1805 -- Goethe Nestor : 1805-32 -- The Jews : 1715-89 -- Geneva to Stockholm Johnson's England : 1756-89 -- The Industrial Revolution -- The political drama : 1756-92 -- The English people : 1756-89 -- The age of Reynolds -- 1756-90 -- England's neighbors : 1756-89 -- The literary scene : 1756-89 -- Samuel Johnson : 1709-84 The collapse of feudal France : 1774-89 -- The final glory : 1774-83 -- Death and the philosophers : 1774-1807 -- On the eve : 1774-89 -- The anatomy of revolution : 1774-89 -- The political debacle 1783-98.
Awards:
  • Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 1968.
Subject: "A history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756 and in the remainder of Europe from 1715-1789." "There is no 'popular history that is so encyclopedic in scope, so brightly readable in style.'" Saturday Rev
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Prelude -- Rousseau wanderer : 1712-56 -- The Seven Years' War : 1756-63 France before the deluge : 1757-74 -- The life of the state -- The art of life -- Voltaire patriarch : 1758-78 -- Rousseau romantic : 1756-62 -- Rousseau philosopher -- Rousseau outcast : 1762-67 The Catholic South : 1715-89 -- Italia felix : 1715-59 -- Portugal and Pombal : 1706-82 -- Spain and the Enlightenment : 1700-88 -- Vale, Italia : 1760-89 -- The Enlightenment in Austria : 1756-90 -- Music reformed -- Mozart Islam and the Slavic East : 1715-96 -- Islam : 1715-96 -- Russian interlude : 1725-62 -- Catherine the Great : 1762-96 -- The rape of Poland : 1715-95 The Protestant North : 1756-89 -- Frederick's Germany : 1756-86 -- Kant : 1724-1804 -- Roads to Weimar : 1733-87 -- Weimar in flower : 17775-1805 -- Goethe Nestor : 1805-32 -- The Jews : 1715-89 -- Geneva to Stockholm Johnson's England : 1756-89 -- The Industrial Revolution -- The political drama : 1756-92 -- The English people : 1756-89 -- The age of Reynolds -- 1756-90 -- England's neighbors : 1756-89 -- The literary scene : 1756-89 -- Samuel Johnson : 1709-84 The collapse of feudal France : 1774-89 -- The final glory : 1774-83 -- Death and the philosophers : 1774-1807 -- On the eve : 1774-89 -- The anatomy of revolution : 1774-89 -- The political debacle 1783-98.

"A history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756 and in the remainder of Europe from 1715-1789." "There is no 'popular history that is so encyclopedic in scope, so brightly readable in style.'" Saturday Rev

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 1968.

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