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The Development of European Society, 1775-1870

by John R. Gillis
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Overview

Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1977, this provocative study is based on the idea that current Third World problems of modernization may be able to shed light on the period of European history from roughly 1770 to 1870. Includes extensive charts and maps.

About the Author, John R. Gillis

John R. Gillis is Professor of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in New Brunswick.

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Editorials

Allen Howard

...lucid, informative, and new in perspective.

Joseph L. Walsh

An indispensable teaching book. There is no comparable treatment of both social and intellectual in the period.

Book Details

Published
March 28, 1983
Publisher
University Press of America
Pages
320
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780819128980

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