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Fins de Siecle: How Centuries End, 1400-2000
Asa Briggs
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Description for Fins de Siecle: How Centuries End, 1400-2000
Paperback. Exploring the final decade of each century from the 15th to the 20th, this work investigates factors such as cultural and economic attitudes, and artistic, scientific and political change. It finds that a consciousness of time has influenced the way people perceive their place in history. Num Pages: 256 pages, 84 b&w illustrations, 34 colour plates. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; HBG; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 168 x 243 x 17. Weight in Grams: 680.
As we approach the new millennium, we find ourselves reassessing the past and looking forward to the future. Has the prospect of a new century always provided a "sense of an ending"? In this timely and stimulating book, experts on every century since the fourteenth each explore the characteristics of a different final decade and find that a consciousness of time has indeed influenced the way people perceive their place in history.
The writers—Paul Strohm on the 1390s (when signs of a new time consciousness first emerged), Malcolm Vale on the 1490s, Ian Archer on the 1590s, Peter ... Read more
As we approach the new millennium, we find ourselves reassessing the past and looking forward to the future. Has the prospect of a new century always provided a "sense of an ending"? In this timely and stimulating book, experts on every century since the fourteenth each explore the characteristics of a different final decade and find that a consciousness of time has indeed influenced the way people perceive their place in history.
The writers—Paul Strohm on the 1390s (when signs of a new time consciousness first emerged), Malcolm Vale on the 1490s, Ian Archer on the 1590s, Peter ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300082630
SKU
V9780300082630
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99-50
About Asa Briggs
Asa Briggs is one of Britain's most distinguished and widely published historians. He has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex, Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, and Chancellor of the Open University. Daniel Snowman has written several books on twentieth-century American social and cultural history. For many years he was Chief Producer, Features, at the BBC.
Reviews for Fins de Siecle: How Centuries End, 1400-2000
"an extraordinary, panoramic view of British society in transition over 700 years." Amanda Foreman, the Independent "the contributors...have produced a series of unusually lively sketches." John Gross, The Sunday Telegraph "well timed...provides plenty of food for thought" Martin Jacques, The Observer