Eighteenth-Century Europe Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789

Name: Eighteenth-Century Europe Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789
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ISBN: 9780393952148

ISBN-10: 0393952142

ISBN-13: 9780393952148

Edition: 1982

Authors: Isser Woloch

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The three-quarters of a century between 1715 and 1789 are often seen as the last years of Europe's old order. But a dramatic rise in Europe's population, the agricultural and industrial revolutions in Britain, and the unprecedented challenges of the Enlightenment began to shake the foundations of the old regime well before 1789. Drawing on the best contemporary scholarship, especially the innovations of French social history, Isser Woloch paints an unusually rich and detailed portrait of eighteenth-century European life and society. Among the new topics he covers are the family economy of the poor, popular culture and the circulation of books, changing patterns of crime and punishment, and…

Book details

Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/17/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Isser Woloch is the Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. His publications include The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s, which won the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association.