GENERAL CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES | HISTORY, by ‧ influencers in the know since 1933. by This is a history written by a journalist rather than an academic historian, and sadly is not a reliable source of information. Timothy Patrick McCarthy. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World By Edward Dolnick Harper Perennial, 2012. Johnson's basic premise is that the period between 1815 and 1830 - fifteen short years, was ground breaking in transforming how humans around the world viewed themselves. That will put some people off--although it's notable I saw more than one review from readers who said in spite of that they found this book incisive and readable. It connects so many it important pieces of innovation to what has become our modern world that it truly turned my head. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. April 24th 1992 Trouble signing in? An interesting co-read with. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Categories: Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830 Paul Johnson, Author HarperCollins Publishers $35 (1095p) ISBN 978-0-06-016574-1 More By and About This Author A gargantuan panorama of the 15 transforming years immediately after the Napoleonic era, when "peace came and immense new resources in finance, management, science and technology which were now available could be put to constructive purposes." October 29, 2011 Goes into a wide range of detail from politics, industrial development & science, arts, music etc. I put this down about two-thirds of the way through. THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN WORLD SOCIETY, 1815-1830 by Paul Johnson ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 5, 1991 A gargantuan panorama of the 15 transforming years immediately after the Napoleonic era, when "peace came and immense new resources in finance, management, science and technology which were now available could be put to constructive purposes." Strong English focus: almost all the examples come from England, for example there is almost nothing on Goethe or Heine. At times fascinating and others overwhelming. Acclaimed philosopher and historian A.C. Grayling points to three primar See 1 question about The Birth of the Modern…, Best Books About Nineteenth Century History, Readers' Most Anticipated Books of January. It's absolutely encyclopedic in scope and de. Having grown up on Manhattan's Upper West Side from kindergarten to college I was exposed almost exclusively to a left-wing narrative of history. It is a remarkably comprehensive view of world history in the fifteen years from 1815-1830. Marion Wiesel, by I wonder if my great, great, great, great, great grandpa realized that he was living through the birth of the modern era during the early 19th century. This book yielded a few really excellent ideas - like identifying the global scope of the expropriation of indigenous folks' land at the hands of grain-growing settler nations using state power - and helped fill in the gaping hole that was my knowledge of the Napoleonic Wars. The New York Times review printed at the time of the book's first publishing is revealing and just. A brilliant book by Paul Johnson, best known for "Modern Times". with In this book Johnson looks at the world in the time period 1815-1830, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the start of the railroad age. I had to take a couple of breaks from reading it or I would have drown in all the detail. UNITED STATES | He comments -“The age abounded in great personalities; warriors, statesmen and tyrants; outstanding inventors and technologists; and writers, artists and musicians of the highest genius, women as well as men. Many times I wondered how certain subject matter was relevant to the book's theme -- including a particular fascination with Byron's sex life. The reviews of this book that are available on the Goodreads site are perfectly adequate if you want to know what the book is about and what are some of its strengths and flaws. Howard Zinn Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society: The Life of Marx and the Development of His Work (Volume I: 1818-1841) $ 19.99 – $ 34.00 Format Clear eBook ( $ 19.99 ) We’d love your help. Not always well structured; often digressions and elaborations. This marvelously readable work from the author of Modern Times , a BOMC main selection in cloth, chronicles the formation of the modern world, illuminating … Johnson's narrative and analytical skills even compensate for many dubious passages when his conservatism leads him to stretch for parallels between 19th- and 20th-century politics—for example, when he sees the genesis of the US-British "special relationship" at a moment when both nations continued to be wary of the other's attention, or likens Romantic admirers of Napoleon such as Shelley, Hazlitt, and Byron to intellectuals enamored of Stalinism in the 1930's. Maddeningly long and highly opinionated, but a lively and readable history of a world "exhilarated and sometimes bewildered by the rapid changes which were transforming it. I wanted to hear from the other side, and ye, Paul Johnson is a British journalist, a believing Catholic--and a conservative. New year! This history of the world during the period from defeat of Napoleon in 1815 to end of the Bourbon dynasty in 1830 is amazing in depth and breadth. Difficult for me to imagine that one intellect could so beautifully filter so much information through a well-told story. Johnson (Intellectuals, 1989; A History of the Jews, 1987, etc. BEST OF Arts & Review. translated by Welcome back. Reading this book made me really understand how everything in history is connected in just one big continuing story. edited by It’s free and takes less than 10 seconds! For Howard Zinn, long-time civil rights and anti-war activist, history and ideology have a lot in common. HOLOCAUST | Retrieve credentials. Wilson relates how clippers -- so termed because of the time they cut off sea voyages -- allowed news and goods to be taken around the world in record time. 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