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Emphasizing the necessity of adhering with rigid exactness to historical facts, the author presents a scheme of ideas upon which to thread the facts of human development which extends to cover the whole range of civilization in its movement through time.
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At the time of original publication in 1921, J. B. Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History, and Fellow of King's College, in the University of Cambridge, and was a profound scholar and a philosophic thinker.
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, Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Gut. Auflage: New. 357 Seiten Fresh and clean copy in good condition. Frisches und sauberes Exemplar in gutem Zustand. Contents: Introduction - Universal History - Principle of Utility - Cartesianism - The Ancients and Moderns - Fontenelle - Abbe de Saint-Pierre - New Conceptions of History - The Encyclopaedists and Economists - Was Civilisation a Mistake? - The Year 2440 - The French Revolution: Condorcet - Progress in England - German Speculations on Progress - Currents of Thought in France After the Revolution - The Search for a Law of Progress: Saint Simon - The Search for a Law of Progress - Comte - Progress in the French Revolutionary Movement (1830-1851) - Material Progress: The Exhibition of 1851 - Progress in the Light of Evolution - Epilogue ISBN 9780486254210 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 407. Seller Inventory # 1240539
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