From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present

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Название: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present

Автор: Jacques Barzun

Издательство: Harper Collins Publishers

Год: 2000

ISBN: 978-0060928834

Формат: pdf

Страниц: 899

Размер: 21 mb

Язык: English

500 лет европейской культуры от Реннессанса до современности.

Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism,

master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum

of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500.

In this account, Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaisance and Reformation

down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns.

He introduces characters and incidents with his unusual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore

those that have "Puritans as Democrats," "The Monarch's Revolution," "The Artist Prophet and Jester" --

show the recurrent role of great themes throughout the eras.