Rousseau and revolution : a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789 /
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.
- xx, 1091 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps (on lining papers) ; 25 cm
- The story of civilization ; 10 .
- Durant, Will, 1885-1981. 10. .
Rousseau wanderer : 1712-56 -- The Seven Years' War : 1756-63 The life of the state -- The art of life -- Voltaire patriarch : 1758-78 -- Rousseau romantic : 1756-62 -- Rousseau philosopher -- Rousseau outcast : 1762-67 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 : 1715-96 -- Russian interlude : 1725-62 -- Catherine the Great : 1762-96 -- The rape of Poland : 1715-95 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 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 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. Prelude -- France before the deluge : 1757-74 -- The Catholic South : 1715-89 -- Islam and the Slavic East : 1715-96 -- The Protestant North : 1756-89 -- Johnson's England : 1756-89 -- The collapse of feudal France : 1774-89 --
"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