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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

Name: Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
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ISBN: 9781324089353

Fareed Zakaria

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The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live. Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world? In this major work, Fareed Zakaria masterfully investigates the eras and movements that have shaken norms while shaping the modern world. Three such periods hold profound lessons for today. First, in the seventeenth-century Netherlands, a fascinating series of transformations made that tiny land the richest in the world—and created politics as we know it today. Next, the...M.F

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Phelps Berkely

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

1324089350

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9781324089353