From Dawn to Decadence: Part 2 by Jacques BaryunMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is my second time reading this and I can read it at least two more times and still only scratch the surface of the learning obtainable here. This second of 2 parts goes from the 1600s to the dawn of the Internet Age and I like how the author reels off books embedded in the text to follow-up with and which are to read or just leaf through, specifically to translations. Translations are important as key novels are big feature here. The book covers two broad paths of the modern era: art largely through literature and technology largely through the stunning advancements of the two-decade stretch 1885 - 1905.
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