The Birth of the Modern by Paul Johnson

The Birth of the Modern by Paul Johnson

The Birth of the Modern has established itself as a new kind of historical work - an examination of the way the matrix of the modern world was formed. Paul Johnson, one of today's most popular historians, takes fifteen critical years and subjects them to a fascinatingly detailed analysis: their geopolitics and politics, their cultural and intellectual life, their technology and science. He investigates every area of life, in every corner of the world. And he makes of this huge variety of elements a coherent narrative, told through the lives and actual words of the age's people - outstanding and ordinary - so that the reader feels he was there.

Paul Johnson was born in 1928 and educated at Stonyhurst and Magdalen College, Oxford. He has enjoyed a varied career, which includes army service and international journalism. He has contributed to many of the world's most famous newspapers and magazines and has travelled to all five continents to report events, interview presidents and prime ministers for the press and TV, and to lecture to academic and business audiences.

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ISBN 13	9781857993660
ISBN 10	1857993667
Title	The Birth of the Modern
Author	Paul Johnson
Series	Phoenix Giants S
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	1997-03-10
Number of pages	1120
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