Perspectives on History - Perspectives on Western Civilization: Volume 2 (paperback edition)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Volume II of Perspectives on Western Civilization, which spans the early modern period to the present, continues the examination of basic values and changing ideas of the good life. Through a collection of primary and secondary materials, these themes are developed in both their continuity and conflicts with each other. From the new foundation of the civilization in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, new challenges and problems arise with the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution centering on the definition of the individual and the power of the state. The nineteenth...
ISBN(s)
1565109902, 9781565109902
