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    <body><![CDATA[A brilliant book by Paul Johnson, best known for &quot;Modern Times&quot;. In this book Johnson looks at the world in the time period 1815-1830, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the start of the railroad age. He covers a wide number of subjects, political, social, financial, artistic and other...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5384604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I keep going back and rereading parts of this book because it is so informative and so well written. It is a remarkably comprehensive view of world history in the fifteen years from 1815-1830. Think of the authors, scientists, statesmen, generals, artists, reformers, and composers you know from the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49353553">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An outstanding piece of work - covers most of world history from 1815 - 1830 - a real tour de force. Goes into a wide range of detail from politics, industrial development &amp; science, arts, music etc. Cannot recommend it highly enough. It's around 1,000 pages - I read it in two massive lumps about ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52055783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[    I have been an admirer of Paul Johnson since reading A History of the American People, and always buy his books as I come across them in book sales.  That led me to Modern Times, probably the most interesting history book I have ever read, and then to this, The Birth of the Modern, World Society...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21239225">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite his conservatism and strained attempts to attack the contemporary Left by association to discreditable persons and movements in the early nineteenth century, Johnson is an excellent writer and this is an entertaining, sometimes enlightening, cultural history of the period.  I particularly li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74453141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book made me really understand how everything in history is connected in just one big continuing story. It was like the scales fell from my eyes. I'm kind of embarrassed it took me so long, but this book changed the way I think of history - in a good way, I mean. I wonder if I would lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63899286">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Do you really need 1,000 pages to chronicle 15 years?  With these particular years, absolutely.  Especially if you're not Eurocentric, which too many such histories are.  Johnson even goes so far as to cite the opening of the first ad agency in Venezuela.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book and a remarkable perspective of such a narrow period of time.  Great thesis of the birth of the modern in this short time span.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thoroughly enjoyed this walking tour through European, mostly English, culture during the Regency period and just after.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, one of my favorite books. And I'm not a conservative! (Just for the record, I hated Modern Times and the author likes to get spanked by prostitutes...) Beyond that, Johnson paints a picture of history which I've yet to see done. If your are a fan of James Burke, I highly recommend this book! I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24520790">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting take on Europe in 1815 and the characters that shaped the coming century (up to 1914.]]></body>
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