civilization, modern

Looks 200 years into the future and imagines that our current civilization has fallen apart by then, just as great civilizations of the past have collapsed.

The history of the growth of European power and infleunce in all parts of the world during the nineteenth century.

In this extraordinary, sweeping history, traces key elements of the modern world back to that single fateful year when everything changed.

Chronicles the monumental changes in our world over the past 100 years.

Translated from Italian. Guide to artists, their works, and artistic movements from the 14th century to the present.

Attempts to show how some of the ideas of the eighteenth century may be useful to society as it enters the twenty-first century, arguing that the 1700s marked the beginnings of much that is worthwhile about the modern world.