From Dawn to Decadence 1500 to the Present 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun Ancient history books
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This is a near fine (almost like new) hardcover with dust jacket. 2000 Harper Collins Publishing. This copy is still crisp and clean inside and out. The inside pages are still crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight and features a fine sewn (not glued) binding. Black cloth hardcover boards under jacket are also near fine with barely a hint of shelf wear and feature gold lettering front and spine. The accompanying dust jacket is clean and shiny with only very light shelf wear. Medium octavo book size or 6.5" x 9.5" with 877 pages including index.
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present is a monumental cultural history written by Jacques Barzun . It was published by Harper Collins in 2000 when the author was 93. It narrates five centuries of Western thought and tracks the rise of modern civilization from the Renaissance and Reformation to the Contemporary Era.
Four Major Revolutions are examined: The Protestant Reformation, The Monarch Revolution, The Democratic French Revolution, and the 19th-century Social Revolution.
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