A History of Private Life: From the fires of revolution to the Great War

• Author(s): Philippe Ariès, Georges Duby,
• Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
• Pages: 713
• ISBN_10: 0674399781
  ISBN_13: 9780674399785
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / Europe / General , History / World , History / Modern / 19th Century , History / Civilization , History / Social History , Reference / General ,

Description:... The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value, emerged. Volume IV of this award-winning series chronicles this development from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I--a century and a quarter of rapid, ungovernable change culminating in a conflict that, at a stroke, altered life in the Western world.