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From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War

by Georges Duby · 1986

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This text, volume four in a series on the evolution of private life, covers the development of self-consciousness from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I, a century and a quarter of rapid, ungovernable change culminating in a conflict that altered life in the West.

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