Discover Timeline 1700-1799, a groundbreaking history book that transforms the past into a living guide for the present, and helps you shape the future.
This meticulously researched work by Dianne L. Durante explores a century of major events, ideas, and trends. Read it decade by decade or follow specific categories such as politics worldwide, U.S. presidents, science, philosophy, literature, and music. Its 195 pages include cross-references that connect ideas and events across time, full-color illustrations of art and technology, excerpts from major fiction and nonfiction works, and a lengthy index.
This Timeline (the first in a series) is perfect for historians, art lovers, bookworms, and for anyone seeking context for today's world. True, the 18th century is long ago, but it brought us the Industrial Revolution, Napoleon, the Declaration of Independence, and the Reign of Terror - not to mention Mozart's Magic Flute, the Trevi Fountain, and Gulliver's Travels.
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* Research a category: dive into politics worldwide, US history & culture, economics, science & technology, philosophy & religion, education, nonfiction, esthetics, architecture, painting, sculpture, fiction, poetry, drama, opera, music.
* Gain a context for reading classic literature such as Gulliver's Travels, Candide, and Robinson Crusoe.
* Give yourself a brief remedial course in history - the sort of history course we wished for (but few of us got) in high school and college, where details are tied together to form a coherent picture.
* Get a better grasp of what's happening today and how to change the future, by seeing how we got where we are.