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Reviewed on March 1, 2000
Bernier, an authority on French history, lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and author of Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties, has written a panoramic history of the state of the world in 1800, a year he feels marks the beginning of our current age. In Europe and the New World, democratic principles were beginning to gain ground over the absolutism of the past, and the industrial re...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
