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- catalog abstract "As we approach the new millennium, we find ourselves reassessing the past and looking forward to a new future. Has the prospect of a new century always provided a 'sense of an ending'? In this timely and stimulating book, experts on each century since the fourteenth explore the characteristics of history's final decades and find that a consciousness of time has indeed influenced the way people perceive their place in the past. The writers - Paul Strohm on the 1390s (when. Signs of a new time consciousness first emerged), Malcolm Vale on the 1490s, Ian Archer on the 1590s, Peter Earle on the 1690s, Roy Porter on the 1790s and Asa Briggs on the 1890s and 1990s - discuss what is common and what is distinctive to each period. Investigating cultural and intellectual attitudes, economic and technological developments, and artistic, scientific and political change, they capture the atmosphere of each end of century. As well as the great. Watersheds of history, the authors explore the daily lives of ordinary citizens, recounting personal histories and subtle shifts in diet, fashion and design, sex and gender roles, relations between rich and poor and the emergence of language. Illustrations from both high and popular art provide arresting images of the cultural and social fabric of each community.".
- catalog contributor b9628174.
- catalog contributor b9628175.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Periodization.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "As we approach the new millennium, we find ourselves reassessing the past and looking forward to a new future. Has the prospect of a new century always provided a 'sense of an ending'? In this timely and stimulating book, experts on each century since the fourteenth explore the characteristics of history's final decades and find that a consciousness of time has indeed influenced the way people perceive their place in the past. The writers - Paul Strohm on the 1390s (when.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-242) and index.".
- catalog description "Signs of a new time consciousness first emerged), Malcolm Vale on the 1490s, Ian Archer on the 1590s, Peter Earle on the 1690s, Roy Porter on the 1790s and Asa Briggs on the 1890s and 1990s - discuss what is common and what is distinctive to each period. Investigating cultural and intellectual attitudes, economic and technological developments, and artistic, scientific and political change, they capture the atmosphere of each end of century. As well as the great.".
- catalog description "The 1390s : the empty throne / Paul Strohm -- The 1490s : continuities and contrasts / Malcolm Vale -- The 1590s : apotheosis or nemesis of the Elizabethan regime? / Ian Archer -- The 1690s / Peter Earle -- The 1790s : "visions of unsullied bliss" / Roy Porter -- the 1890s : past, present, and future in headlines / Asa Briggs -- The 1990s : the final chapter / Asa Briggs.".
- catalog description "Watersheds of history, the authors explore the daily lives of ordinary citizens, recounting personal histories and subtle shifts in diet, fashion and design, sex and gender roles, relations between rich and poor and the emergence of language. Illustrations from both high and popular art provide arresting images of the cultural and social fabric of each community.".
- catalog extent "248 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300066872 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Periodization.".
- catalog subject "941 20".
- catalog subject "DA44 .F56 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "The 1390s : the empty throne / Paul Strohm -- The 1490s : continuities and contrasts / Malcolm Vale -- The 1590s : apotheosis or nemesis of the Elizabethan regime? / Ian Archer -- The 1690s / Peter Earle -- The 1790s : "visions of unsullied bliss" / Roy Porter -- the 1890s : past, present, and future in headlines / Asa Briggs -- The 1990s : the final chapter / Asa Briggs.".
- catalog title "Fins de siècle : how centuries end, 1400-2000 / edited by Asa Briggs and Daniel Snowman.".
- catalog type "text".