Month: March 2012

BARBARISM AND CIVILIZATION A HISTORY OF EUROPE IN OUR TIME BERNARD WASSERSTEIN OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS              2007   Back cover The 20th century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent. It was a century of …

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THE SEARCH FOR A JUST SOCIETY JOHN HUDDLESTON GEORGE RONALD                       1989 PART 13 The French Revolution The French Revolution, like those in England and America, was the bursting into flame of social discontent which had been simmering for the best part of a century. One important cause was an unprecedented doubling of the population of …

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