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Title Fins de siècle : how centuries end, 1400-2000 / edited by Asa Briggs and Daniel Snowman.

Imprint New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©1996.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  942 F498 1996    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index.
Contents The 1390s : the empty throne / Paul Strohm -- The 1490s : continuities and contrasts / Malcolm Vale -- The 1590s : apotheosis or nemesis of the Elizabethan regime? / Ian Archer -- The 1690s : finance, fashion and frivolity / Peter Earle -- The 1790s : "visions of unsullied bliss" / Roy Porter -- the 1890s : past, present, and future in headlines / Asa Briggs -- The 1990s : the final chapter / Asa Briggs.
Summary As we approach the new millennium, we find ourselves reassessing the past and looking forward to a new future. Has the prospect of a new century always provided a 'sense of an ending'? In this timely and stimulating book, experts on each century since the fourteenth explore the characteristics of history's final decades and find that a consciousness of time has indeed influenced the way people perceive their place in the past. The writers - Paul Strohm on the 1390s (when signs of a new time consciousness first emerged), Malcolm Vale on the 1490s, Ian Archer on the 1590s, Peter Earle on the 1690s, Roy Porter on the 1790s and Asa Briggs on the 1890s and 1990s - discuss what is common and what is distinctive to each period. Investigating cultural and intellectual attitudes, economic and technological developments, and artistic, scientific and political change, they capture the atmosphere of each end of century. As well as the great watersheds of history, the authors explore the daily lives of ordinary citizens, recounting personal histories and subtle shifts in diet, fashion and design, sex and gender roles, relations between rich and poor and the emergence of language. Illustrations from both high and popular art provide arresting images of the cultural and social fabric of each community.
Subject Great Britain -- History -- Periodization.
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Briggs, Asa, 1921-2016, editor.
Snowman, Daniel, editor.
ISBN 0300066872 (alk. paper)
9780300066876 (alk. paper)

 
    
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